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MAINE INLAND 

FISH AND GAME LAWS 

1915-16 REVISION 



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INLAND 

FISH AND GAME 

LAWS 



State of flDaine 

LAWS FOR 1915—1916 

(Subject to change by Rules and Regulations of 
Commissioners. Copies of all such Rules and Regu- 
lations will be posted on the banks of waters (or on 
lands) affected thereby. 

This book contains all Rules and Regulations 
adopted up to the time of going to press, June 1, 
1915.) 

Compiled by the Commissioners of Inland Fish- 
eries and Game. 

HARRY B. AUSTIN, Chairman, Phillips, Me. 
WALTER I. NEAL, Waldo, Me. 
F. E. MACE, Augusta, Me. 
Official P. O. Address, 
Augusta, Maine. 



SENTINEL PUBLISHING COMPANY 

WATERVILLE, MAINE 

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Erratum. Section 1. 

The word "lawful" in the third line should read 
"unlawful." 






FISH LAWS 



EXPLANATIONS. 



Unless otherwise specified, the sections referred 
to in this book mean sections of chapter 32 of the 
Revised Statutes, as am. by ch. 206 of the public 
laws of 1913, and by numerous laws of 1915. 

R. & R. of Corns, means Rules and Regulations of 
the Commissioners, which have the force of law, 
having been adopted after notice and hearing in ac- 
cordance with law. 

P. & S. L. means Private and Special Laws. 
P. L. means Public Laws. 

The Legislature of 1913 revised and consolidated 
the inland fish and game laws and rules and regula- 
tions of the Commissioners. 

All rules and regulations of this Commission in 
force on April 1, 1913, which were not incorpo- 
rated in this revised code were repealed. 

FISH LAWS. 

Section 1. The words 'closed season' as used in 
this chapter mean the time or period during which 
it is lawful to hunt, pursue, shoot, wound, trap 
or destroy any bird or animal, or fish for or catch 
any fiish, and the words 'open season' means the 
time during which it shall be lawful to take these 
animals, fish and birds as specified and limited by 
law. 

Section 24. The provisions of this chapter so far 
as they relate to fish of all varieties and fishways 
apply to fish and fishways down to tide waters, 



GENERAL CLOSED SEASON ON PROTECTED 

FISH. 

Sec. 2 as am. by sec. 1, ch. 277, P. L. 1915. 

Except as hereinafter provided, there shall be an 
annual closed season on landlocked salmon, trout, 
togue, white perch and black bass, in all the lakes 
and ponds of the state, as follows: 

On land-locked salmon, trout and togue, from the 
thirtieth day of September until the ice is out o? 
the lake or pond fished in the following spring; on 
white perch and black bass from the thirtieth day 
of September until the twentieth day of June fol- 
lowing; provided, however, that it shall be lawful 
to take black bass, with unbaited artificial flies 
only, from the time the ice is out of the lake or 
pond fished in the spring until the twentieth day 
of June following; provided, further, that in Se- 
bago lake and Long pond, in Cumberland county, 
the annual closed season on land-locked salmon, 
trout and black bass shall be from the first day 
of October to the thirty-first day of March of the 
following year, both days inclusive, and in Thomp- 
son pond, situated in Androscoggin, Cumberland 
and Oxford counties, the annual closed season on 
land-locked salmon, trout and togue shall be from 
September first to January first of the following 
year. 

But in the brooks, streams and rivers of the 
state, above tide waters, the annual closed season 
on trout, salmon and land-locked salmon shall be 
from September fifteenth to the time the ice is out 
of the brook, stream or river fished in the following 
spring; on black bass and white perch from Sep- 
tember thirtieth to June twentieth of the following 
year 

During the respective closed seasons on the above 
named fish no person shall fish for, take, catch or 
kill or have any of them in possession. 



DAILY LIMIT. 

Provided, however, that no per- 
son shall in any one day during the respective 
open seasons herein provided take or catch and 
kill or have in possession at any time, more than 
fifteen pounds in all of the above named fish, un- 
less one individual fish caught shall weigh more 
than fifteen pounds, or unless the last fish caught 
increases the combined weight thereof to more 
than fifteen pounds, and provided, further, that no 
person in any one day shall take, catch and kill or 
have in possession at any time more than twenty- 
five fish in all of the above named fish even though 
the twenty-five fish caught and killed weigh less 
than fifteen pounds; provided, however, that no 
person or party or occupants of any one boat, 
canoe, raft or other vessel or conveyance propelled 
by steam, electricity, hand or other power shall 
catch by still or plug fishing, so called, more than 
four trout and land-locked salmon in any one day, 
collectively, nor more than two trout and land- 
locked salmon in any one day, individually, in 
the waters of Rangeley, Richardson, Mooselookme- 
guntic and Cupsuptic lakes, situated in the counties 
of Franklin and Oxford; provided, further, that 
land-locked salmon and trout may be caught by 
artificial fly until October first in Moose river, be- 
tween Moosehead lake and Brassua lake, in Som- 
erset county 

ICE FISHING LAWS. 

(Sec. 2 as am. by ch. 277, Sec. 1, P. L. 1915.) 

It shall be unlawful to fish 

through the ice at any time for any kind of fish 
except as hereinafter provided: Pickerel may be 
taken at any time through the ice in waters open 



to ice fishing for land-locked salmon, trout, togue, 
white perch and black bass as hereinafter pro- 
vided, but in no other waters, with not more than 
five set lines to each family when fishing through 
the ice in the day time and when under the imme- 
diate personal supervision of the person fishing, 
and during February and March, citizens of the 
state may fish for and take land-locked salmon, 
trout, togue, white perch and black bass with not 
more than five set lines to each family when fish- 
ing through the ice in the day time and when un- 
der the immediate personal supervision of the per- 
son fishing and may convey them to their own 
homes for consumption therein but not otherwise, 
in the following named and specified lakes, ponds 
and rivers, but in no other waters, namely: 

WATERS OPEN TO ICE FISHING IN ANDROS- 
COGGIN COUNTY. 

All the lakes, ponds and rivers wholly or partly 
in this county EXCEPT Lake Auburn, and Pleas- 
ant pond in Turner and Hooper pond in Greene; 
Androscoggin lake, partly in Kennebec county, (on 
Wednesdays only.) (Sec. 2, and chs. 8 — 13, P. L. 
1915.) 

WATERS OPEN TO ICE FISHING IN AROOS- 
TOOK COUNTY. 

All the lakes, ponds and rivers in this county 
EXCEPT Ross and Cary lakes in Littleton. (Sec. 
2 and Ch. 187, P. L. 1915). 

WATERS OPEN TO ICE FISHING IN CUMBER- 
LAND COUNTY. 

All the lakes, ponds and rivers in Cumberland 
county EXCEPT Little Sebago Lake and Sabbath- 



day, Thomas, Panther and Anonymous ponds and 
Island pond in Harrison (and in Waterford in Ox- 
ford county), and Otter pond, in Bridgton, whicn 
pond is closed until July 3rd, 1920. (Sec. 2, and Chs. 
7 and 14, P. L. 1915). 

WATERS OPEN TO ICE FISHING IN FRANKLIN 

COUNTY. 

Only Drury pond in Temple (and all the lakes and 
ponds situated wholly in the town of Chesterville 
Friday and Saturday of each week). (Sec. 2). 

WATERS OPEN TO ICE FISHING IN HANCOCK 

COUNTY. 

All lakes, ponds and rivers in Hancock county, 
except Turtle and Narraguagus lakes and except 
Noyes pond. (Sec. 2). (See Brewer pond and Pas- 
sadumkeag river, partly in Penobscot Co.). 

WATERS OPEN TO ICE FISHING IN KENNEBEC 

COUNTY. 

All the lakes, ponds and rivers in Kennebec county 
EXCEPT Cobbosseecontee, Maranacook, Wilson, 
Echo, Pocasset and Annabessacook lakes and Coch- 
newagon, Great, East, Long, North, Little, Ellis, Mc- 
Graw, Snow, Narrows, Buker, Sand, Purgatory, Little 
Purgatory, Flying and Parker ponds; Pleasant pond, 
in West Gardiner, Litchfield and Gardiner, (and in 
Richmond, Sag. Co.) ; Mud pond in Litchfield and 
Richmond, Horseshoe and Ox-Bow ponds in West 
Gardiner, Tilton, David and Basin ponds in Fayette 
and Berry pond in Winthrop and Wayne. (Sec. 2. 
and chs. 6, 211, 214 and 85, P. L. 1915). 

Bent's pond in Vienna (and in New Sharon, Frank L 
lin Co.) closed to ALL fishing until July 3rd, 1918. 
(Ch. 171, P. L. 1915). 



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Until Feb. 7, 1918, ice fishing is legal m Lovejoy 
pond in Albion on THURSDAYS only. Not more 
than 10 fish can be taken, caught, and killed (or had 
in possession) in this pond in one day at any time. 
(R. & R. Com.) 

(See Androscoggin pond, And. Co., and Mud pond 
and Mirror lake (Parkis pond,) Frank. Co.) 

WATERS OPEN TO ICE FISHING IN KNOX 

COUNTY. 

All the lakes, ponds and rivers in Knox county, 
EXCEPT Crystal lake, in Washington, and Fresh 
pond, in North Haven. (Sec. 2, and Ch. 16, P. L. 
1915.) 

WATERS OPEN TO ICE FISHING IN LINCOLN 

COUNTY. 

All the lakes, ponds and rivers in Lincoln county, 
except Dyers pond and Little Dyers pond in Jef- 
ferson. (Sec 2 and Ch. 4, P. L. 1915). 

WATERS OPEN TO ICE FISHING IN OXFORD 

COUNTY. 

The following named lakes and ponds in Oxford 
county: North and Bird ponds in Norway, the Five 
Kezars, Moose, Bear, Long, Two Spec. Pappoose and 
McWain ponds in Waterford, Kneeland, Songo, Burnt 
land and Crocker ponds in Albany, Proctor pond in 
Albany and Stoneham, Upper Stone and Horseshoe 
ponds in Stoneham, Bradley, Farrington and Slab 
City ponds in Lovell, Moose, Beaver, Long, Sand, 
Grandeur, and Little ponds in Denmark, Lovewell's, 
Clay, Haley, Charles, Pleasant, Lower Kimball and 
Bog ponds situated wholly or partly in Fryeburg, 
Burnt Meadow pond in Brownfield, Moose and Mud 
ponds in Paris, Hogan, and Whitney ponds in Ox- 



ford, the two demons ponds and Bugamuck pond in 
Hartford, Roxbury pond in Roxbury, Keyes and 
Stearns ponds in Sweden, Bickford, Long and Col- 
cord ponds in Porter; Rattlesnake pond, easterly of 
the Maine Central Railroad in Brownfield; North 
and t Round ponds in Greenwood and Woodstock, 
Pleasant, Labrador and Little Labrador ponds in 
Sumner; Half Moon pond; Webber pond in Sweden, 
Dan Charles and Cushman ponds in Lovell, Horse- 
shoe pond in Lovell and Stoneham, Little pond in 
Sweden, Shell pond in Stow and Black pond in Frye- 
burg; Lower Kezar pond in Fryeburg (and Bridgion, 
Cumberland Co.) for black bass and pickerel only; 
and lake Kezar in Lovell, Stoneham and Stow, for 
pickerel, cusk and smelts only. (Sec. 2 ana Cns. 212, 
5, 132 and 155, P. L. 1915). 

WATERS OPEN TO ICE FISHING IN PENOBSCOT 

COUNTY. 

All the lakes, ponds and rivers in Penobscot county 
EXCEPT Passadumkeag river (or Passadumkeag 
stream) in Penobscot and Hancock counties, and 
Cold Stream, Ware, Davis and the Puffer ponds; 
provided, however, that no person can take, catch 
and kill (or have in possession) more than 5 fish in 
all through the ice in any one day in Brewer pond in 
Orrington and Holden (and Bucksport, Hancock 
County). (Sec. 2, and Ch. 87, P. L. 1915). 

WATERS OPEN TO ICE FISHING IN PISCATA- 
QUIS COUNTY. 

The following named lakes and ponds in Piscata- 
quis county: Moosehead, Seboeis, Cedar, Schoodic, 
North and South Twin, Pemadumcook, Ambajejus,' 
Debsconeag, Nahmakanta, Chesuncook, Sebec, Joe 
Mary, Caribou, Lobster, Chamberlain, Telos, Web- 
ster, Eagle, Allagash, Munsungan, Millinocket, Cau« 



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comgomuc, Churchill, Chemquassabamticook, Grand, 
Second and Ragged lakes, and in Fourth Buttermilk, 
Little Benson, Ebemee, First Buttermilk, Big Benson, 
Big Huston, Center, Pepper, Large Greenwood, 
South Branch, Carpenter, Littlefield and Fowler 
ponds, the four Davis ponds in Guilford and Willi- 
mantic; Harlow pond in Parkman (for pickerel 
only) ; Lake Hebron in Monson, Kingsbury pond 
(partly in Somerset county) and the Bennett ponds 
in Guilford. (Sec. 2, and Chs. 134, 53, 11, 216, 210, P. 
L. 1915.) 

WATERS OPEN TO ICE FISHING IN SAGADAHOC 

COUNTY. 

All the lakes, ponds and rivers in Sagadahoc 
county, except Pleasant and Mud ponds, partly in 
Ken. Co. (Sec. 2.) 

WATERS OPEN TO ICE FISHING IN SOMERSET 

COUNTY. 

The following named lakes and ponds in Somerset 
county; Moosehead, Great Moose and Brassua lakes; 
Hayden lake and Lake George on Saturday only of 
each week; Morrill, Palmer, Ellis, Round, Ten 
Thousand Acre, Rowell, Smith, Oakes, Pickerel, Gil- 
man, Sibley, Fahi, Sandy, Wyman, Weeks, Mud, 
Stafford, Starbird, Douglass, Mayfield, Kingsbury, 
Dead Stream, Lower Cold Stream, Horseshoe and 
Big Wood ponds; Barker pond in Cornville, Martin 
(or Long pond) in The Forks Plantation and Gam- 
mon pond; the Kennebec river in Somerset 
county; Great Embden pond on Saturday only of 
each week; Big Indian pond, in St. Albans, on Tues- 
day and Friday of each week, but no person shall 
while fishing through the ice in said Big Indian 
pond take, catch or kill (or have in possession) in 
any one day more than 5 fish in air. (Sec. 2, and 
Chs. 213, 88, 246, 77, P. L. 1915.) 



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WATERS OPEN TO ICE FISHING IN WALDO 
COUNTY. 

All the lakes, ponds and rivers in Waldo county. 
(Sec. 2.) 

WATERS OPEN TO ICE FISHING IN WASH- 
INGTON COUNTY. 

All the lakes, ponds and rivers in Washington 
county, EXCEPT trout cannot be taken through the 
ice in Simpson pond, Roque * Bluffs. (Sec. 2, and 
ch. 189, P. L. 1915.) 

(See Simpson pond under "closed waters" in this 
county, page 31). 

WATERS OPEN TO ICE FISHING IN YORK 
COUNTY. 

All the lakes, ponds and rivers in York county, 
except Bonneg Beg, Messabesic, Littlefield, Square, 
Middle Branch, Mousam, Long and York pondo. 
(Sec. 2.) 

DAILY LIMIT IN ICE FISHING. 

Section 2 No citizen of the state 

shall in any one day, during the open season herein 
provided for fishing through the ice, take, catch or 
have in possession more than fifteen pounds in all 
of the above named fish, (land-locked salmon, trout, 
togue, white perch and black bass) unless one 
individual fish caught shall weigh more than fifteen 
pounds; and provided, further, that no person in any 
one day shall take, catch and kill more than twenty- 
five fish in all of the above named fish even though 
the twenty-five fish caught and killed weigh less 
than fifteen pounds 



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LENGTH OF LAND-LOCKED SALMON, TROUT, 
BLACK BASS AND WHITE PERCH WHICH 
MAY BE TAKEN. 

(Sec. 2 as am. by sec. 2, ch. 277, P. L. 1915.) 

No land-locked salmon less than 

twelve inches in length, no trout less than six inches 
in length, no black bass less than ten inches in 
length and no white perch less than six inches in 
length shall be caught and killed or had in possession 
by any person at any time, except that in Great, 
Long, East, North, Ellis, McGraw and Snow ponds, 
said ponds being part of the Belgrade chain of lakes, 
in Kennebec and Somerset counties, no trout less 
than ten inches or black bass less than twelve inches 
in length shall be caught and killed at any time; and 
provided, further, that no person shall take, catch 
and kill in any one day more than six black bass in 
all in either of said ponds or in Lake Kezar or in 
Lower Kezar pond in Oxford county. 

WATERS CLOSED TO ALL FISHING AT ALL 
TIMES AND WATERS ON WHICH THERE ARE 
SPECIAL LAWS REGULATING THE MANNER 
OF FISHING, &C, &C. 

Section 2, as amended In the fol- 
lowing named waters it shall be unlawful for any 
person at any time to fish for in any way or take, 
catch or kill any fish, except as may be hereinafter 
provided: 

ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY. 

It is unlawful to fish in any of the tributaries to 
Lake Auburn (and in all that part of the waters of 
said Lake Auburn and Townsend brook, to a point 
five rods below the bridge on the Turner road shall 



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be considered as tributary waters to said Lake Au- 
burn) ; or in any of the tributaries to Taylor pond in 
Auburn, or in any of the tributaries to Round and 
Long ponds in Livermore, or in any of the tributaries 
to Pickerel (or Beals) pond in Turner; or in Hooper 
pond, in Greene, from Oct. 1 to time ice is out in 
spring, or in any of its tributaries at any time. (Sec 
2, and Ch. 13, P. L. 1915). 



AROOSTOOK COUNTY. 

It is unlawful to fish in that part of Presque Isle 
stream above Grindstone, in Chapman Plantation, or 
in any of the tributaries flowing into said Presque 
Isle stream EXCEPT the North Branch of said 
stream, commonly called the Mapleton Branch, the 
East Branch and Burnt Land brook; or in the inlet 
stream of Squaw Pan lake and the East Branch of 
said inlet stream above Thomas Thibodeau's lower 
landing; or in Violette brook in Van Buren above 
Hammond's mill. (Sec. 2, and Chs. 23 and 302, P L 
1915). 



FROG LAW. 

No person shall take, catch or kill any frogs in 
Big Fish lake, Portage lake, Square lake, Eagle lake, 
Long lake, Soldier pond, or in any of the tributaries 
to said lakes or pond in the county of Aroostook, 
EXCEPT for domestic use in the family of the person 
taking the same. Whoever violates the provisions 
of this act shall pay a fine of not less than ten 
dollars nor more than thirty dollars and costs for 
each offense; and in addition thereto one dollar fov 
each frog taken, caught, killed or had in possession 
in violation of this act. (Ch. 158, P. & S. L. 1915.) 



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CUMBERLAND COUNTY, 

It is unlawful to fish in North Branch brook and 
tributaries; or in Island pond and tributaries in Har- 
rison (and Waterford, Ox. Co.) ; or any of the tribu- 
taries to Sebago lake EXCEPT in Crooked river, 
from its junction with Songo river to Crooked river 
bridge, and in Songo river, above Songo lock, it shall 
be lawful to fish in accordance with the general 
law of the State. (Sec. 2 and Chs. 18 & 7, P. L. 1915). 
It is unlawful to fish in Otter pond, in Bridgton, until 
July 3, 1920. (Ch. 14, P. L. 1915). 

FRANKLIN COUNTY. 

It is unlawful to fish in any of the tributaries to 
Rangeley lake; or in Coos brook, a tributary to 
Wilson lake, in Wilton, to the upper side of the Wil- 
kins bridge; or in Holland brook, a tributary to said 
Wilson lake, up to its junction with Coos brook; or 
in any of the tributaries to Varnum and North ponds 
in Temple and Wilton; or in any of the tributaries to 
Clearwater pond in Farmington and Industry; or in 
any of the tributaries to Long pond and Sandy River 
pond wholly or partly in Sandy River plantation; or 
in any of the tributaries to Webb pond in Weld, 
except Alder brook down as far as the mill dam at 
Hildreth's mills; or in Staples pond in Temple or in 
any of its tributaries; or in any of the tributaries to 
Four ponds in Township E and D; or in any of the 
tributaries to Tim and Mud ponds in Township two, 
Range four; or in Whetstone brook, which flows into 
Kennebago stream; or in Kamankeag brook, a tribu- 
tary to Kennebago stream, situated in the town of 
Rangeley, or in any of the tributaries to Tuft's and 
Dutton ponds in Kingfield, or in the outlet of the 
same from Dutton pond to Reed's Falls or from Tuft's 
pond to Alder stream; or in any of the tributaries to 



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Mooselucmeguntic lake; or in any of the tributaries 
to Bigelow pond in Township Number Four, Range 
three. (Sec. 2). 

It shall be unlawful to fish except with unbaited, 
artificial flies in the usual manner, or carry away or 
transport any fish so taken in any of the waters in 
Davis, Stetson, or Seven ponds Townships and Massa- 
chusetts Gore, except fish so taken in said waters 
may be transported from the place where caught to 
a lodge, camp, dwelling house or hotel situated in 
the above named territory. (Sec. 2). 

Provided, however, a person may carry to his home 
in one day 5 fish, or not more than 3 pounds of fish 
(unless an individual fish exceeds 3 pounds in weight) 
which he has legally taken in Kennebago and Little 
Kennebago lakes and in Little Kennebago stream or 
in the portion of Kennebago stream open to fishing. 
(Ch. 290, P. L. 1915). 

Provided, further, that no person shall take, catch 
and kill or have in possession in any one day more 
than ten fish in all in Kennebago Lake or in Little 
Kennebago Lake or in Little Kennebago stream. 
(Ch. 290, P. L. 1915). 

In Kennebago stream it shall be lawful to fish from 
the time the ice is out in the spring until Oct. 1st, 
from Indian Rock to Big Falls, in the ordinary way 
with artificial flies, and to kill two fish in one day 
when accompanied by a registered guide. 

In Rangeley stream it shall be lawful to fish 
from the time the ice is out until Oct. 1st from the 
sign at the old wharf near the head of said stream 
down to the dam across said stream, in the ordinary 
way with artificial flies, and to kill one fish in one 
day; and from the upper end of the dead water on 
said stream to Indian Rock, from the time ice is out 
until Sept. 15th, in the usual way with artificial flies 
and to kill one fish in one day. (Sec. 2 and Ch. 157, 
P. L. 1915). 



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In Little Kennebago stream to its junction with 
Kennebago stream from time ice is out until Oct. 1st 
fly fishing only. (Sec. 2 and Ch. 290, P. L. 1915.). 

Bents pond, in New Sharon (and in Vienna, Ken. 
Co.) closed until July 3rd, 1918. (Ch. 171, P. L. 1915). 

RULES AND REGULATIONS OF COMMISSIONERS. 

For a period of four years from Oct. 1, 1913, no 
person can fish for, take, catch or kill any kind of 
fish at any time in Quimby pond, Dodge pond, or 
Round pond, in Rangeley, or in Gull pond, in Dallas 
Plantation or in the Saddleback Mountain ponds, in 
Sandy River Plantation, or in Haley pond, in Range- 
ley and in Dallas plantation, except in the ordinary 
way of casting with artificial flies. 

During the same period it shall be unlawful for 
any person to take, catch and kill more than six 
fish in any one day in either of said ponds. 

For a period of four years from October 1, 1913, no 
person can fish for, take, catch or kill any kind or 
fish at any time in Loon Lake, in Rangeley and in 
Dallas Plantation, or in Cow pond, in T 3, R 3, (or 
Davistown) and in Lang Plantation, except by the 
ordinary manner of casting with artificial flies or by 
trolling. 

During the same period it shall also be unlawful 
for any person or the occupants of one boat, to take, 
catch and kill more than five pounds of trout or 
land-locked salmon in all, or one fish, in said Cow 
pond or in said Loon lake, in any one day. 

During the same period it shall also be unlawful 
for any person to carry away or transport any fish 
taken in either of said lakes, except fish taken in 
said lakes may be transported from the place where 
caught to a lodge, camp, dwelling house or hotel sit- 
uated on the shores of said lakes, or to a licensed 
taxidermist in this state for mounting only. 



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For a period of four years from September 30, 1913, 
no person can take, catch and kill more than ten 
trout in any one day in Saddleback lake, (formerly 
called Dead River pond), in Dallas Plantation. 

During the same period no person can take, catch 
and kill any trout less than eight inches in length in 
said lake. 

During the same period it shall also be unlawful 
for any person to fish for, take, catch or kill any 
kind of fish at any time in any of the tributaries to 
said lake. 

During the same period it shall also be unlawful 
for any person to carry away or transport any fish 
taken in said lake, except fish taken in said lake 
may be transported from the place where caught to 
a lodge, camp, dwelling house or hotel situated on 
the shore of said lake, or to a licensed taxidermist 
in this state for mounting only. 

For four years from July 11, 1913, no person can 
fish for, take, catch or kill any kind of fish at any 
time except with artificial flies or by the method 
commonly called fly fishing, in the North Branch of 
Dead River, from Eustis dam to Chain-of-ponds dam, 
or in Tim brook, or in Tea brook, or in Jim brook, or 
in Alder stream, or in any of the tributaries to saia 
stream, or in Round Mountain lake, or in Blanchard 
pond, which waters are situated in Jim Pond Town- 
ship, Alder stream Township, Chain-of-Ponds Town- 
ship, and in the town of Eustis. 

It shall also be unlawful for any person to take, 
catch and kill more than ten trout and land-locked 
salmon in all in any of the above named waters in 
any one day. 

Only 10 trout and land-locked salmon in all can be 
taken, caught and killed or had in possession in any 
one day in Tufts, Dutton and Grindstone ponds, in 
Kingfield. (Ch. 156, P. L. 1915). 

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Only 15 fish in all can be taken, caught and killed 
or had in possession in any one day, and no trout less 
than 8 inches in length, in Stratton brook or in any 
of its tributaries, or in Mt. Bigelow ponds. (Ch. 245, 
P. L. 1915). 

Mud pond, Mirror lake (or Parkis pond) and their 
tributaries, Bog stream, the outlet of Mirror lake, 
and tributaries, down as far as North pond stream, 
in Jay and Chesterville (and in Fayette, KJen. Co.) 
closed to all fishing. (Ch. 226, P. L. 1915). 

No person shall fish for, take, catch or kill any 
kind of fish at any time in brook Number one, or in 
Brook Number Two, above the railroad track above 
Lowelltown. (Ch. 76, P. L. 1915). 

HANCOCK COUNTY. 

It is unlawful to fish at any time in any of the trib- 
utaries to Bubble pond or Turtle lake on Mount 
Desert Island, or in Upper Patten Pond brook in 
Orland, or in any of the tributaries to Eagle lake. 
(Sec. 2.) (See Sunkhaze stream, Pen. Co.). 

KENNEBEC COUNTY. 

It is unlawful to fish in any of the tributaries to 
Flying pond in Vienna EXCEPT Sucker brook above 
Whittier dam, or in any of the tributaries to Jimmy 
pond in Litchfield; or in any of the tributaries to 
Great, Long, East, North, Little, Ellis, McGraw and 
Snow ponds, (EXCEPT in Belgrade stream, a tribu- 
tary to Snow pond, up as far as Belgrade bridge;) 
or in any of the tributaries to Cobbosseecontee lake, 
or in any of the tributaries to Lake Maranacook, or 
in Little pond in Rome, or in any of the tributaries 
to Parker pond, or in any of the tributaries to Berry 
pond in Winthrop and Wayne; or in any of the trib- 
utaries to Pattee's pond in Winslow, or in Wilson 



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brook from Abbott road to the junction of said 
brook with the outlet stream of Pattee's pond. 
Bents pond in Vienna (and in New Sharon, Franklin 
county), closed to all fishing until July 3, 1918. (Sec. 
2, and Chs. 6, 229, 211, 12 and 171, P. L. 1915). 

Fifteen mile stream and tributaries, in Kennebec 
and Waldo counties closed. (Ch. 185, P. L. 1915). 

Not over 10 fish can be taken, caught and killed 
(or had in possession) in one day in Lovejoy pond in 
Albion. (R. & R. Corns.). 

(See Mud pond, Mirror lake, (Parkis pond) and 
tributaries and Bog stream, outlet of Mirror lake, 
and tributaries, in Franklin county). 

KNOX COUNTY. 

It is unlawful to fish in any of the tributaries to 
Norton pond, or in any of the tributaries to Alford's 
lake in Hope, or in any of the tributaries to Ler- 
mond's pond in Hope and Union, or in any of the 
tributaries to Canaan lake in Knox and Waldo coun- 
ties, or in any of the tributaries to Crystal lake in 
Washington. (Sec. 2). Fresh pond in North Haven 
closed to ALL fishing until July 3rd, 1920. (Ch. 16, 
P. L. 1915). 

OXFORD COUNTY. 

It is unlawful to fish in any of the tributaries to 
Indian pond in Greenwood, or in any of the tribu- 
taries to South pond in Greenwood, or in any of 
the tributaries to Twitchell pond in Greenwood, or 
in any of the tributaries to North pond in Wood- 
stock, or in any of the tributaries to Round pond in 
Greenwood; or in any of the tributaries to Marshall 
pond, situated wholly or partly in Oxford, except it 
shall be lawful to fish in that portion of Donham 
brook, a tributary to said Marshall pond, which is 



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down stream from a certain rock with staples driven 
therein; or in any of the tributaries to Rattlesnake 
pond in Brownfield, or in any of the tributaries to 
Garland pond, or in any of the tributaries to Little 
Pennesseewassee in Norway, or in any of the tribu- 
taries to Lake Pennesseewassee in Norway, or in 
any of the tributaries to Pickerel pond in Denmark, 
or in any of the tributaries to Mooselucmeguntic 
lake; or in Mill brook or in Metalluc brook, tribu- 
taries to Upper Richardson lake, or from the mouth 
of Metalluc brook out as far as the island except 
with artificial flies; or in any of the tributaries to 
Songo pond in Albany; or in Ellis river or in any 
of its tributaries in Andover, Andover West, North 
Surplus, Roxbury, Townships C and D, except on 
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; or in any of the 
tributaries to Cupsuptic lake, EXCEPT Cupsuptic 
river and its tributaries above the foot of the first 
falls near its mouth, from May 1st to July 1st; and 
from the mouth of said river at high water mark 
to Little Falls, from Sept. 15 to Sept. 30 with arti- 
ficial flies. (Sec. 2 and Chs. 170 and 279, P. L. 1915). 

Provided further that in the pool at Upper Dam 
and in the river running from said pool to Lake 
Mollychunkamunk and in Rapid river between Lower 
Richardson and Umbagog Lakes it shall be lawful 
to fish with artificial flies only, until Oct. 1st of each 
year. 

And provided further that in Pond-in-the-River it 
shall be lawful to fish with artificial flies only until 
Sept. 15th of each year, and from Sept. 15th to Oct. 
1st with bait only. (Sec. 2 and Chs. 128 and 131, 
P. L. 1915.) 

No person shall fish for, take, catch or kill any 
kind of fish at any time in Dead Cambridge river in 
Upton, in Township C Surplus, from Umbagog lake 
to C pond, or in C pond, in said township C surplus, 



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except by the ordinary method of casting with arti- 
ficial flies or fly fishing; nor shall any person fish 
for, take, catch or kill any kind of fish at any time in 
any of the tributaries to said Dead Cambridge river, 
except Swift Cambridge river, or in any of the 
tributaries to said C pond. (Sec. 2, and Ch. 188, 
P. L. 1915). 

No person shall fish for, take, catch or kill any 
kind of fish at any time, in any of the tributaries to 
Azicohos lake, or in any of the tributaries to Par- 
machenee lake, or in any of the tributaries to Ma- 
galloway river above Azicohos dam; nor shall any 
person fish for, take, catch or kill any kind of fish, 
at any time, in Azicohos lake or in Parmachenee 
lake or in Long pond or in the Magalloway river 
above Azicohos dam, or in Little Magalloway river 
below Wheeler dam, which waters are situated in 
township four, range five, W. B. K. P. (Oxbowtown), 
township four, range six, W. B. K. P. (Bowmantown), 
township five, range five, W. B. K. P. (Parmachenee 
town), township five range four, W. B. K. P. (Lynch- 
town), Township five, range three, W. B. K. P. (Par- 
kertown) and in Lincoln plantation and in Magallo- 
way plantation, except by the ordinary method of 
casting with artificial flies or fly fishing. No person 
shall take, catch or kill in any one day, more than 
five pounds of fish in all, or not more than ten fish, 
even though the ten fish caught and killed weigh 
less than five pounds, in said Azicohos lake, Parma- 
chenee lake, Long pond, the Magalloway river above 
Azicohos dam, or in Little Magalloway river below 
Wheeler dam; nor shall any person have in posses- 
sion in any one day, more than five pounds of fish in 
all, or not exceeding ten fish, even though they weigh 
less than five pounds, taken in said waters. No 
resident of this State shall carry away or transport 
in any one day more than five pounds of fish, or 



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not more than one fish if it exceeds five pounds in 
weight, taken in any of said waters; nor shall any 
non-resident carry away or transport, in any one 
day, more than three pounds of fish, or not more than 
one fish if it exceeds three pounds in weight, taken in 
any of said waters, except that fish legally taken in 
said waters may be transported from the place where 
caught to a lodge, camp, dwelling-house or hotel, 
situated in the above name territory. (Ch. 135, 
P. L. 1915.) 

No person shall fish for, take, catch or kill any 
kind of fish at any time in any of the tributaries to 
Shagg pond, in Woodstock; nor shall any person 
take, catch, and kill in any one day more than two 
trout and landlocked salmon in all in said Shagg 
pond, and in Little Concord pond in Woodstock, and 
Abbott pond in Sumner. (Ch. 228, P. L. 1915). 

No person shall fish for, take, catch or kill any 
kind of fish at any time in Ward's brook or in Ward's 
pond in Fryeburg, except during the months of May, 
June and July of each year, it shall be lawful to fish 
in said waters in accordance with the general law of 
the State. (Ch. 20, P. L. 1915). 

No person shall take, catch and kill more than five 
trout and land-locked salmon in all in any one day 
in Overset pond, in the town of Greenwood, nor shall 
any person have in possession in any one day more 
than five trout and land-locked salmon in all taken in 
said pond. (Ch. 163, P. L. 1915.) 

*No person or family shall take, catch or kill in any 
one day more than eight pounds of smelts in all in 
Bryant's pond or in any of its tributaries, which 
waters are situated in the towns of Woodstock and 
Greenwood; nor shall any person or family have in 
possession, in any one day, more than eight pounds 
of smelts in all taken in any of said waters. (Ch. 
160, P. L. 1915). (*See p. 24.) 



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No person shall fish for, take, catch or kill any 
kind of fish at any time, above the dead water in 
any of the tributaries to Lake Kezar in the towns 
of Lovell, Stoneham and Stow; nor shall any person 
fish for, take, catch or kill any kind of fish, at any 
time, in any of the tributaries to Kezar river in the 
towns of Lovell and Sweden. (Ch. 161, P. L. 1915). 

RULES AND REGULATIONS OF COMMIS- 
SIONERS. 

For a period of four years from June 20, 1914, it 
shall be unlawful for any person to fish for, take, 
catch or kill any kind of fish at any time, in that part 
of the outlet stream of Lake Pennesseewassee in the 
town of Norway, between a line drawn from the 
northerly point of the island on the easterly side of 
said stream, ABOVE CROCKETT'S BRIDGE, SO- 
CALLED, ON SAID STREAM, to the northerly point 
of the island on the westerly side of said stream, 
ABOVE SAID BRIDGE, and a line drawn from the 
point of land now occupied by Eddie Perault, on the 
easterly side of said stream BELOW SAID BRIDGE, 
to the southerly point of the island on the westerly 
side of said stream, BELOW SAID BRIDGE, said 
lines being 200 feet, more or less, above and below, 
respectively, said Crockett's bridge. 

For a period of four years from June 20, 1914, it 
shall be unlawful for any person to fish for, take, 
catch or kill any kind of fish, in "B" town, in Upton, 
or in the two West Richardson ponds, or in the two 
East Richardson ponds, or in the Beaver ponds, 
which waters are situated in the town of Upton, in 
Township No. 4, Range 2, and in Lincoln and Ma- 
galloway plantations, EXCEPT BY THE ORDINARY 
METHOD OF CASTING WITH ARTIFICIAL FLIES, 
or fly fishing, so called. 



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During the same period it shall also be unlawful 
for any person to fish for, take, catch or kill any 
kind of fish at any time in any of the tributaries to 
either of the above named ponds. 

Section 2. During the same period it shall also be 
unlawful for any person to take, catch or kill in 
any one day more than ten fish in all in either of 
the above named ponds, or to have in possession in 
any one day more than ten fish in all in either of 
the above named ponds, or to have in possession in 
any one day more than ten fish in all taken in either 
of the above named ponds. 

*It is unlawful to fish at any time in any of the 
tributaries to Bryant pond which pond is situated 
partly in the town of Woodstock; or in Brook Kedar 
or in its tributaries, the Kingman and Plummer 
brooks, situated in Waterford, except for smelts and 
suckers. (*See p. 22.) 

(See Island pond and tribs. Cumb. Co.) 

PENOBSCOT COUNTY. 

It is unlawful to fish at any time in any of the trib- 
utaries to Lumbert lake in Springfield and in Lake- 
ville plantation; or in Wallace brook in Carroll, a 
tributary to Shaw lake; or in Lowell brook in Lake- 
ville plantation, a tributary to Duck lake; or in Dill 
brook in Lakeville plantation, a tributary to Bottle 
lake; or in Getchell brook in Lakeville plantation, a 
tributary to Duck lake, from the mouth of said brook 
up to the head of Muzzy Meadows, one mile from 
Duck lake; or in Sebasticook river from the fish 
screen or middle Bridge to Sebasticook lake; or in 
Booker brook in Levant. (Sec. 2, and Ch. 225, P. L. 
1915). 

RULES AND REGULATIONS OF COMMIS- 
SIONERS. 

In addition to the closed season on white perch 
now provided by the general law of the State, it shall 



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be unlawful for any person to fish for, take, catch or 
kill any white perch in Lake Sebasticook from the 
20th day of June to the 30th day of June, of each 
year, both days inclusive, for a period of four years 
from June 20, 1914.' 

Section 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to 
fish for, take, catch or kill any kind of fish at any 
time within one hundred feet of the Corinna bridge, 
on Corinna Stream, a tributary to Lake Sebasticook, 
or within one hundred feet of the Durham bridge, on 
Stetson Stream, a tributary to said Lake Sebasti- 
cook, for a period of four years from May 15, 1914. 

For a period of four years from May 15, 1914, it 
shall be unlawful for any person to fish for, take, 
catch or kill any kind of fish at any time in Sunkhaze 
stream, in Township 32, Hancock county, and in 
Greenfield and Milford, in Penobscot county, or in 
any of the tributaries to said stream, except from the 
first day of May of each year to the first day of 
August following; provided, however, it shall be law- 
ful to take pickerel, in accordance with the general 
law of the State, in Sunkhaze Meadows. 

PISCATAQUIS COUNTY. 

It is unlawful to fish at any time in Long Pond 
stream, or in Ship Pond Stream above Buck's Falls; 
or in Davis stream in Willimantic below Hathaway 
brook; or in Vaughan stream, a tributary to Long 
Pond stream, or in any of the tributaries to Moose- 
head lake except Moose river, or in Wilson stream, 
a tributary to Sebec lake, up to Toby Falls; or in 
any of the tributaries to Ship Pond stream. (Sec. 2, 
and Chs. 208, 209, P. L. 1915). 

No person shall fish for, take, catch or kill any 
kind of fish at any time in Rum pond, in Greenville 
and in Township Number eight, range ten, N. W. P., 
except from the fifteenth day of July of each year 



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until September thirtieth following, both days inclu- 
sive, during which open season it shall be lawful 
to fish in said pond in accordance with the general 
laws of the State. (Chapter 192, P. L., 1915.) 

For five years from July 3, 1915, no person shall 
fish for, take, catch or kill any kind of fish at any 
time in Horseshoe pond, in West Bowdoin College 
township, trom the first day of October of each year 
until the thirtieth day of June of the following year, 
both days inclusive. (Ch. 158, P. L. 1915). 

No person shall fish for, take, catch or kill any 
kind of fish at any time, in any of the tributaries 
to Upper Wilson pond or in any of the tributaries to 
Lower Wilson pond, provided, further, that the 
stream connecting said ponds shall be construed to 
be a tributary to Lower Wilson pond down as far as 
low water mark in Lower Wilson pond at the mouth 
of said stream. No person shall have in possession, 
at any time, any kind of fish taken in violation of 
any provision of this act. (Ch. 162, P. L. 1915). 

For four years fjom Sept. 1, 1913, the annual closed 
season on the North Inlet of Kokadjo river, between 
1st and 2nd Kokadjo ponds, shall commence on 
Sept. 1st of each year. (R. & R. Comrs.). 

SAGADAHOC COUNTY. 

For a period of five years from July 3, 1915,. no 
person shall fish for, take, catch or kill, at any time, 
any kind of fish within the following described ter- 
ritory, situated on the southerly point of Swan Is- 
land, in the town of Perkins, in the county of Sag- 
adahoc; All of the territory southerly of the land 
formerly owned by Robert Reed to high water mark 
on the shores thereof. No person shall have in 
possession, at any time, any kind of fish taken in 
violation of any provision of this act. Whoever 
violates any provision of this act shall pay a fine of 



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ten dollars and costs for each offense; and in addi- 
tion thereto one dollar for each fish taken, caught, 
killed or had in possession in violation of any pro 
vision of this act. 

SOMERSET COUNTY. 

It is unlawful to fish at any time in any of the 
tributaries to Lake George in Canaan, or in Beaver 
brook in Holeb, or in any of the tributaries to Hay. 
den lake in Madison, (or in Mosquito stream — R. & 
R. Corns.) — or in any of the tributaries to Great 
Embden pond in Embden, or in Misery stream, an 
inlet of Brassua lake; or in any of the tributaries 
to Great Moose lake in Hartland and Harmony, EX- 
CEPT Main stream, Goodwin's brook and Higgins 
stream below the first dam on said Higgins stream; 
or in the West Outlet of Moosehead lake; or in any 
of the tributaries to Parlin or Lang pond, in Township 
Three, Range seven; or in Lang stream or in any of 
its tributaries. (Sec. 2). Jackson pond in Concord 
closed to all fishing. (Oh. 2115, P. L. 1915). 

No person shall fish for, take, catch or kill any 
kind of fish at any time during the month of Septem- 
ber of each year, in that part of Ellis pond lying 
southerly of the boat landing on the west side of 
said pond and southerly of the first point above the 
outlet on the each side of said pond, which pond is 
situated in the west part of township number one, 
range six, B. K. P. W. K. R., known as the ten thou- 
sand acre tract, in Somerset county. No person shall 
have in possession at any time any kind of fish taken 
in violation of any provision of this act. (Ch. 186, 
P. L. 1915). 

No person shall take, catch or kill more than five 
pounds of fish in all, in any one day, in Big Turner 
pond, Little Turner pond, or in the Calf Pasture, ad- 
jacent tQ said Big Turner pond, in township number 



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six, range two, N. B. K. P., or Forsyth township, or 
in Fish pond, Little Fish pond or McKenney pond, in 
township number six, range one, N. B. K. P. or Holeb 
township. No person shall have in possession in any 
one day, more than five pounds of fish in all, taken 
in any of the above-named ponds. (Ch. 76, P. L. 
1915). 

RULES AND REGULATIONS OF COMMIS- 
SIONERS. 

It shall be unlawful, for a period of two years from 
April 15, 1914, for any person to fish for, take, catch 
or kill any kind of fish at any time in Fish pond, in 
Moxie Gore. 

For a period of two years from April 15, 1914, it 
shall be unlawful for any person to fish for, take, 
catch or kill any kind of fish at any time in Helen 
pond, in Pierce Pond and Black Brook Townships. 

It shall also be unlawful for a period of four 
years from April 15, 1914, for any person to fish for, 
take or catch any kind of fish at any time in Fish 
pond, in said Black Brook Township, or in High 
pond, in said Pierce Pond township, in any mannei' 
except in the ordinary way of casting with artificial 
flies or fly fishing; it shall also be unlawful for any 
person to take, catch or kill more than five pounds of 
fish in all in any one day in either of said ponds; 
it shall also be unlawful for any person to have in 
possession in any one day more than five pounds of 
fish in all taken from said ponds. 

It shall also be unlawful for a period of four years 
from April 15, 1914, for any person to fish for, take, 
catch or kill any kind of fish in said High pond, 
during the month of September of each year. R. & 
R. Corns. 

For a period of four years from July 1, 1913, it 
shall be unlawful to fish for, take, catch or kill any 



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kind of fish at any time in that part of Johnson 
brook, in the town of Pittsfield, which is above the 
Johnson bridge, on the county road leading from 
Burnham to Canaan. 

For a period of four years from April 15, 1914, it 
shall be unlawful for any person to take, catch or 
kill more than five pounds of fish in all in Crocker 
pond, in Dennistown Plantation, in any one day. 

It shall also be unlawful for any person to have in 
possession in any one day more than five pounds of 
fish in all taken from said Crocker pond. 

For a period of four years from April 20, 1914, it 
shall be unlawful for any person to take, catch and. 
kill more than five pounds of trout or salmon in all 
in any one day in any waters which are open to 
fishing in Township Number 2, Range 5, known as 
Lower Enchanted Township; or in Township Number 
3, Range 6, known as Upper Enchanted Township; 
or in Township Number 5, Range 7; or in the West 
Half of Township Number 2, Range 6, known as 
Johnson Mountain Township; or in the East Half 
of Township Number 2, Range 6, known as Upper 
Cold Stream Tract; or in that part of Parlin stream 
which is situated in Township Number 4, Range 7, 
and in Long Pond Plantation, or in Township Num- 
ber 3, Range 7, known as Parlin Pond Township, 
including that part of Parlin stream in said town- 
ship. 

During the same period it shall also be unlawful 
for any person to fish for, take, catch or ki'l any 
kind of fish at any time except in the ordinary way 
of casting with artificial flies or fly fishing in Little 
Enchanted pond, in Township Number 3, Range 6, or 
in any of the waters situated in the West Half of 
Township Number 2, Range 6, known as Johnson 
Mountain Township except Parlin stream, or in any 
of the waters situated in the East Half of Township 



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Number 2, Range 6, known as Upper Cold Stream 
Tract. 

During the same period it shall also be unlawful 
for any person to fish for, take catch or kill any 
kind of fish at any time in Bean brook, a tributary 
to said Parlin stream. 

WALDO COUNTY. 

Fifteen Mile stream and tributaries (partly in 
Kennebec county) closed to all fishing. (Ch. 185, P. 
L. 1915). 

Meadow brook, in Stockton Springs and Prospect, 
and tributaries, closed to all fishing. (Ch. 52, P. L. 
1915). 

For a period of four years from June 5th, 1913, it 
shall be unlawful for any person to fish for, tak±, 
catch or kill any kind of fish at any time in Duck 
Trap Stream, or in Sleepy Hollow brook, said waters 
being situated in the towns of Lincolnville and Bel- 
mont EXCEPT that during the months of May and 
June of each year it shall be lawful to fish in said 
Duck Trap stream, and during the month of April of 
each year it shall be lawful to fish in said Sleepy 
Hollow brook, in accordance with the general law 
of the State. 

It shall also be unlawful to fish for, take, catch 
or kill any kind of fish at any time in any of the 
tributaries to said Duck Trap stream or in any of 
the tributaries to said Sleepy Hollow brook. 

WASHINGTON COUNTY. 

It is unlawful to fish at any time in any of the 
tributaries to Lambert lake. 

Provided that Grand Lake stream, the outlet of 
Grand lake, and so much of Grand lake as is one 
hundred yards above the dam at the outlet shall 



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be annually closed to all fishing from October 1st 
to May thirty-first of the following year, both days 
inclusive, and provided further, that from said dam 
to a point one hundred yards below said dam on 
said stream it shall be unlawful to fish for any kind 
of fish at any time, and it shall be unlawful during 
open season on said stream and one hundred yards 
above the dam at the outlet of said lake, to fish for, 
take, catch or kill any fish by any other method 
than by the ordinary way of angling with artificial 
flies. (Ch. 2.) 

No person shall fish for, take, catch or kill any 
trout at any time in Simpson pond, in the town of 
Roque Bluffs, except during the months of May, 
June and September of each year it shall be lawful 
to fish for and take trout in said pond in accordance 
with the general law of the State relating to trout 
fishing. Provided, further, that no person shall fish 
for, take, catch or kill any kind of fish in said pond 
at any time on Sunday. (Ch. 189, P. L. 1915.) 

YORK COUNTY. 

It is unlawful to fish at any time in any of the 
tributaries to Bonneg Beg pond in Sanford and 
North Berwick, or in York pond in York and Eliot, 
or in Mclntire or Junkins brooks in York, or in 
Boyd's pond in Limington; or in Great brook, a 
tributary to Salmon Falls river, or in Dixon brook, a 
tributary to Great brook; or in Dole pond in said 
Limington except during June, July and August of 
the year nineteen hundred and sixteen it shall be 
lawful to fish in said pond in accordance with the 
general law of the State. 

No person shall take, catch or kill more than five 
pounds of white perch in any one day in Little 
river, or in any of its tributaries, situated in Old 
Orchard; nor shall any person have in possession 



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in any one day more than five pounds of white 
perch taken in any of the above named waters. Pro- 
vided, that white perch may be taken in said waters 
only for consumption in the family of the person 
taking the same. (Sec. 2, and Chs. 301 and 54, P. 
L. 1915.) 

NUMBER OF LINES WHICH MAY BE USED IN 

FISHING. 

Section 2. No person shall in any 

manner except when fishing through the ice, as now 
provided by law, fish with more than two lines at 
any time. 

PENALTY FOR VIOLATING ANY PROVISION OF 
ABOVE SECTION, (Sec. 2), AND AMENDMENTS 
THEREOF. 

(Note: Sec. 2 begins on p. 4 and ends with the 
preceding paragraph.) 

Section 3. Whoever violates any of the provi- 
sions of section two shall pay a fine of not less 
than ten nor more than thirty dollars and costs 
of prosecution for each offense; and in addition 
thereto one dollar for each fish taken, caught, killed 
or had in possession in violation of any of the provi- 
sions of section two. 

TRIBUTARY DEFINED. 

(Sec. 4 as am. by sec. 3, ch. 277, P. L. 1915.) 
The words "tributary" and "tributaries" wherever 
used in this act shall be construed to mean brooks or 
streams flowing directly or indirectly into a lake o^ 
pond or into another brook or stream, and one great 
pond or lake shall not be construed as a tributary to 
another great pond or lake. 



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SALE AND PURCHASE OF CERTAIN FISH PRO- 
HIBITED. 

Section 5. Whoever by himself, his clerk, ser- 
vant, or agent, directly or indirectly, sells or pur- 
chases any land-locked salmon, trout, togue, black 
bass or white perch, shall pay a fine of not less than 
ten nor more than thirty dollars and costs of prose- 
cution for each offense, and in addition thereto one 
dollar for each fish sold, purchased or had in posses- 
sion in violation of any of the provisions of this 
section. 

PROHIBITED DEVICES IN FISHING. 

(Sect. 6 as am. by sec. 3, ch. 277, P. L. 1915). 

Whoever fishes for, takes, catches, kills or destroys 
any fish, with fish spawn, or grapnel, spear, trawl, 
weir, gaff, seine, trap, (or set lines, except when fish- 
ing through the ice, and then with not more than flvb 
set lines to a family in the day time), or shall use any 
dynamite or other explosive or poisonous or stupefy- 
ing substance for the purpose of destroying or taking 
fish, or takes any kind of fish (except suckers, eels, 
hornpouts and yellow perch, as hereinafter provided) 
with any device or in any other way than by the ordi- 
nary mode of angling with single baited hook and 
line, artificial flies, artificial minnows, artificial in- 
sects, spoon hooks and spinners, so called, shall pay a 
fine of not less than ten nor more than thirty dollars, 
and costs of prosecution, for each offense; and in 
addition thereto one dollar for each fish taken, 
caught, killed or had in possession in violation of 
any provision of this section; and when prohibited 
implements or devices are found in use or possession 
they are forfeit and contraband and any person find- 
ing them in use may destroy them. 



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POSSESSION OF SPEAR, TRAWL OR NET 
ILLEGAL. 

(Sec. 7, as am. by sec. 5, ch. 277, P. L. 1915.) 
No person shall have in possession at any time any 
jack light, spear, trawl, or net (except such as are 
authorized for the taking of suckers, eels, hornpouta 
and yellow perch, as provided in section nine of this 
chapter) other than a dip net, in any camp, lodge or 
place of resort for hunters or fishermen, or in its 
immediate vicinity, or on any of the lakes, rivers or 
streams of the state, or in their immediate vicinity, 
in the inland territory of the state, under a penalty 
of not less than ten dollars nor more than thirty 
dollars and costs of prosecution for each offense, and 
when such implements or devices are found in pos- 
session in violation of this section they are forfeit 
and contraband and may be seized by any person 
authorized to enforce the inland fish and game laws. 

SMELTS, MINNOWS, BAIT FISH, WHITE FISH, 
SUCKERS AND CUSK. 

(Sec. 8, as am. by sec. 6, P. L. 1915.) 
It shall be lawful, however, to take smelts in all 
the inland waters of the state above tide waters 
with a dip net in the usual and ordinary way, and to 
catch them through the ice in the day time with 
single hook and line at any time in waters open to 
ice fishing, but they shall not be taken for sale or 
sold at any time except for bait for fishing in this 
state; provided, however, that it shall be lawful to 
take smelts at any time for sale in any of the tribu- 
taries to Sebago lake, with a dip net in the usual 
and ordinary way, and in Sebago lake, with single 
hook and line, during January, February and March 
of each year; provided, further, that it shall be law- 
ful to take minnows and other fish usually used for 



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bait in fishing and to sell the same for bait for fishing 
only in this state; and provided, further, that it shall 
be lawful to catch white fish and cusk with single 
hook and line at any time, but they shall not bs 
taken at night with set lines; and provided, further, 
that it shall be lawful to take suckers with spears 
during April and May of each year. 

Whoever violates any provision of this section 
shall pay a fine of thirty dollars and costs for each 
offense. 

TAKING OF EELS, SUCKERS, HORNPOUTS AND 
YELLOW PERCH. 

(Sec. 9, as am. by sec. 7, ch. 277, P. L. 1915.) 
Suckers, eels, hornpouts and yellow perch may be 
taken with eel pots, traps, spears or nets, in such 
inland waters and under such rules and regulations 
as may be established by the commissioners of in- 
land fisheries and game. 

Said commissioners shall establish and designate 
by public notice the waters in which suckers, eels, 
hornpouts and yellow perch may be taken as pro- 
vided in this section. It shall be unlawful for any 
person to take, catch, kill or destroy any suckers, 
eels, hornpouts or yellow perch, or to have in pos- 
session any of said fish, in violation of any provision 
of this section. Whoever violates any provision ot 
this section shall pay a fine of thirty dollars and 
costs for each offense. 

TRANSPORTATION OF FISH. 

(Sect. 10 as am. by sec. 8, ch. 277, P. L. 1915.) 

No person shall transport more than fifteen 

pounds of landlocked salmon, trout, togue, white 

perch or black bass in all in any one day, nor shall 

any corporation or common carrier transport more 



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than fifteen pounds in all, of landlocked salmon, 
trout, togue, white perch or black bass in any one 
day as the property of one person, but nothing 
herein contained shall prevent any person, corpora 
tion or common carrier from transporting one fish 
weighing more than fifteen pounds; nor shall any 
such be transported except in the possession of the 
owner thereof, plainly labeled with the owner's name 
and residence, and open to view, except as is pro- 
vided in section eleven of this chapter. 

PENALTY FOR ILLEGAL TRANSPORTATION OF 

FISH. 

Section 10. Whoever violates any provision of 
this section shall pay a fine of not less than ten dol- 
lars nor more than thirty dollars and costs for each 
offense, and in addition thereto one dollar for every 
pound of fish being transported in violation of any 
provision of this section; and all such fish being so 
transported in violation of this section shall be 
seized and shall be forfeited to the state; provided, 
however, that nothing herein contained shall pro- 
hibit any person having less than twenty-five fish 
weighing in all less than fifteen pounds from trans- 
porting one additional fish, nor prohibit any trans- 
portation company from transporting said additional 
fish under the conditions prescribed in this section 
for the transportation of fish. 

TRANSPORTATION OF FISH UNDER TAG. 

(Sec. 11, as am. by sec. 9, ch. 277, P. L. 1915.) 
No landlocked salmon, trout, togue, black bass or 
white perch shall be carried or transported in any 
way except in the possession of the owner, accom- 
panied by him, plainly labeled with the owner's name 
and address, and open to view, except any person 



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who has lawfully in his possession one landlocked 
salmon, one trout, one togue, one black bass or 
one white perch, or ten pounds of any kind of these 
fish, may transport the same to his home or to any 
hospital in this state without accompanying the 
shipment, by purchasing of the duly constituted 
agent therefor a tag, paying for a landlocked salmon, 
trout, togue or black bass, one dollar for each, or one 
dollar for each ten pounds of the same, and fifty 
cents for one white perch or ten pounds of the 
same; provided, however, that no person shall, un- 
der any of these provisions, send more than one box 
of fish once in thirty days, except that one box oi 
fish as aforesaid, may be sent as herein specified 
once in ten days by one person taking them lawfully 
from Moosehead lake. Whoever violates any provi- 
sion of this section shall pay a fine of not less than 
ten dollars nor more than thirty dollars and costs, 
for each offense, and in addition thereto one dollar 
for each pound of fish transported in violation of 
any provision of this section. 

INTRODUCTION OF FISH WITHOUT PERMIS- 
SION OF COMMISSIONERS PROHIBITED. 

Section 12. Whoever introduces fish of any kind 
into any of the waters of the State by means of 
live fish or otherwise, except upon written permis- 
sion of the commissioners of inland fisheries and 
game, shall pay a fine of not less than fifty dollars 
nor more than five hundred dollars. 

ADVANCE BAITING PROHIBITED. 

Section 13. Whoever deposits any meat, bones, 
dead fish or parts of the same, or other food for 
fish, in any of the inland waters of the State, for 
the purpose of luring fish known as "advance bait- 



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ing," shall pay a fine of not less than ten nor more 
than thirty dollars and costs of prosecution for each 
offense. 

FISHING FOR GAIN OR HIRE PROHIBITED. 

(Sec. 26, as am. sec. 11, P. L. 1915.) 
Whoever shall, for the whole or any part of the 
time, engage in the business or occupation of fishing 
on any of the inland waters of the State above tide 
waters, for landlocked salmon, togue, trout, black 
bass, pickerel, or white perch, for gain or hire, shall 
for every such offense pay a fine of fifty dollars and 
costs. Provided, however, that nothing in this sec- 
tion shall be construed as prohibiting the sale of 
pickerel legally taken by the person taking the same. 

SAWDUST AND OTHER SAW MILL WASTE MUSI 
NOT BE THROWN INTO ANY OF THE LAKES 
OR PONDS OF THIS STATE OR INTO CERTAIN 
OTHER WATERS NAMED BELOW. 

Section 14. No person or corporation shall place 
or deposit in any of the lakes or ponds of the state, 
or into any of the following named rivers, brooks and 
streams, to wit, in Aroostook county, the AroostooK 
river or any of its tributaries above the mouth of 
Beaver brook, in Sheridan plantation, except saw- 
dust made by gang saws, main rotaries, up and down 
saws in water mills in use prior to 1903; Fish river 
and all its tributaries down as far as the foot of 
Eagle lake, except Sly brook; Wallagrass river for 
a distance of three miles from its mouth; Little 
Madawaska river or any of its tributaries; in Cum- 
berland county, in any of the rivers, brooks or 
streams lying wholly or in part in the towns oi 
Naples, Casco and Raymond; Breakneck brook and 
its tributaries; in any of the tributaries to Highland 



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lake; Mill brook in Westbrook; in Franklin county, 
in any of the tributaries to Lake Webb; in Kennebec 
county, in any of the tributaries to McGraw, Ellis, 
East, North, Great, Long, Little and Snow ponds; or 
in Potter mill stream in Litchfield; in any of the 
tributaries to any of the lakes or ponds lying wholly 
or partly in the towns of Vienna and Mount Vernon, 
in Knox county, in any of the tributaries to Crawford 
pond in Union and Warren; in Lincoln county, in 
Jackson Mill stream, or in Joe Weeks' mill stream, 
tributaries to Damariscotta lake; in Oxford county, 
Bog brook and its tributaries, in Oxford and Hebron 
(and in Minot and Mechanic Falls in Androscoggin 
county) ; Swift river and its tributaries, in the coun- 
ties of Oxford and Franklin; the outlet of Worthley 
pond in Peru; in Ellis river and its tributaries; 
Cambridge river, in Upton and Grafton; Bear river, 
in Newry and Grafton; Cold river and its tributa- 
ries, in Stowe; the tributaries to Upper Kezar pond 
in Lovell; in Penobscot county, the West Branch of 
Mattawamkeag stream and its tributaries; Kimball 
brook, Shin brook and Seboeis river, tributaries to 
East Branch of the Penobscot river; Fish stream, a 
tributary to Mattawamkeag river; Olamon stream; 
in Piscataquis county, Ferguson stream; the South 
Branch of the Piscataquis river and its tributaries 
in the town of Kingsbury; Thorn brook and its trib- 
utaries in the towns of Abbot, Kingsbury and 
Blanchard; Higgins stream and its tributaries 
in the counties of Somerset and Piscataquis; 
in Waldo county, Half Moon or Sandy stream and its 
tributaries; the tributaries to Seven Tree pond; the 
tributaries to Unity pond; St. Georges river, in 
Montville and Searsmont; Ellis stream, in Waldo, 
Brooks and Belfast; in Washington county, Baskahe- 
gan stream, in the town of Danforth; in York county, 
Heath brook, in the town of Acton; Little Ossipee 



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river, within the limits of the towns of Shapleigh, 
Newfield, Waterboro, Limerick and Limington; Nor- 
ton and Brown brooks and their tributaries, in 
Shapleigh and Limerick, or allow the same to be 
done by anyone in their employ, any slabs, edgings, 
sawdust, chips, bark, mill waste, shavings or fibrous 
material created in the manufacture of lumber, or 
place or deposit the same on the banks of any of the 
above-named waters in such negligent or careless 
manner that the same shall fall or be washed into 
the same, or with the intent that the same shall 
fall or be washed into the same. 

Whoever violates any of the provisions of this 
section shall pay a fine of not less than five dollars 
and not exceeding one hundred dollars and costs for 
each offense. 

DUTIES OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISH- 
ERIES AND GAME. 

Section 15. The commissioners of inland fisheries 
and game shall have general supervision of the en- 
forcement of the inland fish and game laws. When- 
ever they shall deem it for the best interests of the 
State, after due notice and public hearing in the lo- 
cality to be affected, they may regulate the times 
and places in which and the circumstances under 
which game and inland fish may be taken for a 
series of years not exceeding four, but they cannot 
authorize the taking of game or inland fish at a 
time in which its capture is prohibited by the laws 
of the state. They may, from time to time, modify 
or repeal such needful rules and regulations, not 
contrary to the laws of the State, as they may deem 
necessary or proper for the protection and preserva- 
tion of the game and inland fish of the state. They 
shall file, in the offices of the clerks of the towns in 
the territory to be affected, a copy of the rules and 



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regulations adopted by them, and publish the same 
three weeks successively in a newspaper printed in 
the county, and post on the banks of waters to be 
affected, as nearly as may be like notices; and 
whenever any such rules or regulations apply to any 
unorganized township, a like copy shall be filed with 
the clerk of courts for that county, and published 
three weeks successively in a newspaper printed in 
the county; they shall, immediately upon the adop- 
tion of any rules and regulations contemplated by 
this section, file an attested copy of the same in 
the office of the secretary of state. 

Whoever fishes for, takes, catches, kills or destroys 
any inland fish, or hunts, chases, catches, kills, 
takes or destroys any inland game, in any manner 
at any time, in violation of any of the rules and 
regulations of the commissioners of inland fisheries 
and game, made and promulgated in conformity with 
the provisions of this chapter, shall be punished in 
the same manner and to the same extent as is pro- 
vided for by law for the illegal taking, catching, kill- 
ing or destroying of any inland fish or for the illegal 
hunting, chasing, catching, killing, taking or destroy- 
ing of any inland game. 

Section 16. Whoever wilfully mutilates, defaces 
or destroys any notice, rule, or regulation of the 
commissioners of inland fisheries and game, posted 
in conformity with the provisions of this chapter, 
shall pay a fine not exceeding fifty dollars. 

Section 17. Said commissioners of inland fish- 
eries and game may take fish and game of any 
kind when, where, and in such manner as they 
choose, for the purposes of science and of cultiva- 
tion and dissemination, and they may grant written 
permits to other persons to take fish and game for 
the same purposes, and may introduce or permit to 
be introduced, any kind of fish into any waters. 



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They may, after a hearing, set apart, for a term not 
exceeding ten years, any waters for the use of the 
State or of the United States commissioner of fish 
and fisheries, in the prosecution of the work of fish 
culture and of scientific research relative to fishes. 
The order setting apart such waters shall be record- 
ed in the registry of deeds of the county in which 
they are situated. In the waters so set apart, they 
and the United States commissioner of fish and 
fisheries, and persons acting under their authority 
may, in their respective fish culture and scientific 
work, take fish at any time or in any manner, and 
erect and maintain any fixtures necessary for such 
purposes. No other person shall take or kill any 
fish, or use any implement for fishing therein, under 
a penalty of not less than ten nor more than one 
hundred dollars, and a further penalty of one dollar 
for each fish so taken or killed; provided, however, 
that before such hearing they shall give notice there- 
of, by publication of their intention for two succes- 
sive weeks in at least one newspaper printed in the 
county where such waters lie 

COMMISSIONERS MAY GIVE PERMITS TO TAKE 
GAME AND BIRDS FOR PARK PURPOSES. 

Section 17. They are authorized 

to grant permission to take moose, caribou, deer, and 
birds for park purposes in this state, under such 
rules, regulations, and conditions as they shall es- 
tablish 

MINK AND OTHER ANIMALS AND BIRDS MAY 

BE DESTROYED BY COMMISSIONERS. 
Section 17. They shall have au- 
thority to cause the destruction of any mink or other 
destructive animal or bird found in or around any 
fish hatchery or feeding station in this State. 




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FISHWAYS. 

Section 17. They shall have au- 
thority in their discretion to compel the owner or 
occupant of every dam or other artificial obstruction 
above tide water in any river or stream frequented 
by salmon, land-locked salmon, shad, alewives or 
other migratory fishes, to provide the same with a 
durable and efficient fishway, of such form and ca- 
pacity, and in such location as may, after notice in 
writing to one or more of said owners or occupants 
and a hearing thereon, be determined by the com- 
missioners of inland fisheries and game by written 
notice to some owner or occupant specifying the 10 
cation, form and capacity of the required fishway, 
and the time within which it shall be built; and said 
owner or occupant shall keep said fishway in repair, 
and open and free from obstruction for the passage 
of fish, during such times as are prescribed by law; 
provided, however, that in case of disagreement be- 
tween said commissioners and the owner or occu- 
pant of any dam, as to the propriety and safety of 
the plan submitted to the owner or occupant of 
such dam for the location and construction of the 
fishway, such owner or occupant may appeal to the 
county commissioners of the county where the dam 
is located, within twenty days after notice of the 
determination from the commissioners of inland 
fisheries and game by giving to the latter named 
commissioners notice in writing of such appeal 
within that time, stating therein, the reasons there- 
for; and at the request of the appellant or the com- 
missioners of inland fisheries and game, the senior 
commissioners in office of any two adjoining coun- 
ties shall be associated with them, who shall appoint 
a time to view the premises and hear the parties 
and give due notice thereof, and after such hearing 
they shall decide the question submitted, and cause 



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record to be made thereof, and their decision shall 
be final as to the plan and location appealed from. 
If the requirements of the commissioners of inland 
fisheries and game are affirmed, the appellants shan 
be liable for the costs arising after the appeal, other- 
wise they shall be paid by the county. If a fishway 
thus required is not completed to the satisfaction of 
the commissioners of inland fisheries and game 
within the time specified, every owner or occupant 
shall forfeit not more than one hundred, nor less 
than twenty dollars for every day of such neglect 
between the first days of May and November. On 
the completion of a fishway to the satisfaction of 
the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, or 
at any subsequent time, they shall prescribe in writ- 
ing the time during which the same shall be kept 
open and free from obstruction to the passage or 
fish each year, and a copy of such writing shall be 
served on the owner or occupant of the dam. 

The commissioners of inland fisheries and game 
may change the time as they see fit. Unless other- 
wise provided, fishways shall be kept open and unob- 
structed from the first day of May to the fifteenth 
day of July. The penalty for neglecting to comply 
with this section, or with any regulations made in 
accordance herewith, is not less than twenty, or 
more than one hundred dollars for every day of 
such neglect. 

Section 18. Whenever the commissioners of in- 
land fisheries and game find a fishway out of repair 
or needing alterations, they may, as in the case of 
new fishways, require the owner or occupant to 
make such repairs or alterations; and all proceed- 
ings in such cases and the penalty for neglect shall 
be as provided in the preceding section without 
appeal. If the dam is owned and occupied by more 
than the one person, each is liable for the cost of 



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erecting and maintaining such fishway, in proportion 
to his interest in the dam, and if any owner or oc- 
cupant neglects or refuses to join with the others in 
erecting or maintaining such fishway, the other 
owners or occupants shall erect or repair the same, 
and have an action on the case against such delin- 
quent for his share of the expenses. If the owner 
or occupant of such dam resides out of the state, 
said penalties may be recovered by a libel against 
the dam and land on which it stands, filed in the 
supreme judicial court in the county where it is lo- 
cated, in the name of the commissioners of inland 
fisheries and game or of any inland fish and game 
wardens who shall give to such owner or occupant, 
and all persons interested therein, such notice as 
the court or any justice thereof in vacation orders, 
and the court may render judgment therein, against 
said dam and lands for said penalties and costs, and 
order a sale thereof to satisfy such judgment and 
costs of sale, subject, however, to all said require- 
ments for the erection and maintenance or repair of 
said fishway. The commissioners of inland fisheries 
and game may delegate to any inland fish and game 
warden or other lawful officer of inland fisheries and 
game any of the powers given to said commission- 
ers in relation to the construction of fishways. 

Section 19. Said commissioners shall have au- 
thority to grant permits to transport beyond the lim- 
its of the State live fish or game taken in the State, 
for breeding, scientific and advertising purposes. 
They are authorized to employ attorneys at trials in 
minor courts for violations of the provisions of this 
chapter, and necessary additional clerks in their 
office, and may have at least two daily newspapers 
published in the state, such as they may select, for 
use in their office, all of which shall be paid for out 
of the regular appropriation for their department. 



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They shall, on or before the thirty-first day of De- 
cember of each year, make an annual report to the 
Governor, who shall cause not exceeding three thou- 
sand copies to be printed. 

SCREENING OF LAKES AND PONDS. 

Section 20. Said commissioners may in their dis- 
cretion authorize the screening of the outlet of any 
pond or lake under such conditions as they may de- 
termine. 

Whoever shall take up, destroy or injure any 
screen erected at the outlet of any lake or pond 
by authority of the commissioners of inland fisheries 
and game, shall pay a fine of fifty dollars and costs 
for each offense. 

ARTIFICIAL CULTURE OF FISH BY RIPARIAN 
PROPRIETORS, AND SALE AND TRANSPOR- 
TATION OF SUCH FISH. 

Section 21. Any riparian proprietor may, within 
the limits of his own premises, inclose the waters of 
a stream not navigable, for the cultivation of useful 
fishes; provided that he furnishes suitable passages 
for migratory fishes naturally frequenting such wa- 
ters, and does not obstruct the passage of boats and 
other craft and materials, in places where the same 
have a right to pass. Any person legally engaged in 
the artificial culture and maintenance of fishes, may 
take them in his own enclosed waters wherein the 
Same are so cultivated and maintained, as and 
when he pleases, and may at all times sell, ship or 
transport them from his own pools or ponds, with- 
out accompanying the shipment, having first pro- 
cured a license therefor and tagged the same in ac- 
cordance with rules and regulations established by 
the commissioners of inland fisheries and game. 



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Section 22. No person without permission of the 
proprietor, shall fish in that portion of a pond or 
other water in which fish are artificially cultivated or 
maintained by written permission of the commis- 
sioners of inland fisheries and game, under a penal- 
ty of not less than ten nor more than one hundred 
dollars, besides two dollars for each fish so taken or 
killed; and, in default of payment, such offender 
shall be imprisoned at the expense of the prose- 
cutor, until said forfeiture is paid or otherwise dis- 
charged by due process of law. 

HOW FISH HATCHERIES MAYBE ESTABLISHED. 

Sec. 23, as am. by sec. 10, ch. 277, P. L. 1915.) 
The commissioners of inland fisheries and game 
for the location, construction, repair and convenient 
operation of a fish hatchery or fish hatcheries and 
feeding stations for fish may purchase, lease or take 
and hold, for and in behalf of the state, as for public 
uses, land and all materials in and upon it or any 
rights necessary for the purpose of establishing, 
erecting and operating fish hatcheries. For real es- 
tate so taken, the owners are entitled to damages, to 
be paid by the state and estimated by the county 
commissioners, on written application of either party, 
made within one year after filing the location as here- 
inafter provided, or if proceedings thus commenced 
fail for causes not affecting the merits, new ones 
may be commenced within one year thereafter. 
When the commissioners of inland fisheries and 
game deem that a public exigency required the tak- 
ing of any land or rights for the purposes aforesaid, 
they shall cause the same to be surveyed, located, 
and so described that the same can be identified, and 
a plan thereof shall be filed in the registry of deeds 
in the county (or registry district) where the land 
or rights are located, and there recorded. The filing 



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of such plan and description shall vest the title to 
the land and right aforesaid, in the State of Maine, 
or its grantees, to be held during the pleasure of 
the state. Either party if aggrieved by a decisiou 
of the county commissioners rendered in conformity 
with the provisions of this section, may appeal as 
in a civil action to the Supreme Judicial Court in 
the county in which the land is situated. 

Section 25. The provisions of section sixty-one Gt 
chapter 41 of the revised statutes, relating to the 
powers of the commissioner of sea and shore fish- 
eries, are hereby extended to the commissioners of 
inland fisheries and game. 

(The following is the full text of Sec. 61, Ch. 41, R. 
S., above referred to.) 

All fines and penalties under this chapter may be 
recovered by complaint, indictment or action of debt 
made or brought in the county where the offense 
was committed. The action of debt shall be brought 
in the name of the commissioner of sea and shore 
fisheries, and all offenses under, or violations of, the 
provisions of this statute, may be settled by the 
commissioner of sea and shore fisheries, upon such 
terms and conditions as he deems advisable. All 
fines, penalties and collections under this chapter 
except when otherwise expressly provided, shall be 
paid to the treasurer of state, to be added to and 
made a part of the appropriation for sea and shore 
fisheries. 

PROTECTION OF MOOSE, CARIBOU AND DEER. 

Section 27. Whoever hunts, pursues, kills or has 
in possession any caribou or any cow moose, at any 
time, shall pay a fine of two hundred dollars and 
costs for each offense. 

Ch. 146, P. L. 1915, Section 1. There shall be a 
closed time on bull moose extending from the date on 



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which this act shall take effect until November first 
in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred nineteen, 
during which time it shall be unlawful to hunt, take, 
catch, kill, destroy or have in possession any bull 
moose or part thereof. 

Section 2. Whoever violates any provision of sec- 
tion one of this act shall pay a fine of not less than 
one hundred nor more than two hundred dollars and 
costs for each offense; or be imprisoned not ex- 
ceeding four months. 

(Note. This act took effect July 3, 1915.) 

Section 29. There shall be an annual closed sea- 
son on deer in the counties of Aroostook, Franklin, 
Hancock, Oxford, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset 
and Washington from December sixteenth of each 
year to September thirtieth of the following year, 
both days inclusive, (except that on the island of 
Mount Desert no deer shall be pursued or killed at 
any time) during which said closed season, except 
as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to hunt, 
chase, catch or kill any deer or have in possession 
any part or parts thereof whenever or wherever 
taken, caught or killed; and no person shall be- 
tween October first and December fifteenth next 
following of each year, both days -inclusive, except 
as hereinafter provided, take, catch, kill or have in 
possession, whenever or wherever taken, caught or 
killed, more than two deer or parts thereof. 

And provided, further, that there shall be an an- 
nual closed season on deer in the counties of An- 
droscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, 
Sagadahoc, Waldo and York from the first day of 
December of each year to the thirty-first day of 
October of the following year, both days inclusive, 
during which closed season, except as hereinafter 
provided, it shall be unlawful to hunt, chase, eaten 
or kill any deer, or have in possession any parts 

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thereof, taken in the counties named in this para- 
graph; and no person shall between November first 
and November thirtieth of each year, both days In- 
clusive, except as hereinafter provided, take, eaten 
or kill in the counties named in this paragraph more 
than one deer; it shall also be unlawful for any 
person to have in possession more than one deer, 
or parts thereof, taken in the counties named in 
this paragraph in one open season; a person law- 
fully killing a deer in open season shall have a 
reasonable time in which to transport the same to 
his home and may have the same in possession at 
his home in closed season. 

SPECIAL DEER LAWS. 

ISLE AU HAUT, KNOX COUNTY, AND CROSS 
AND SCOTCH ISLANDS, WASH. CO. 

Whoever hunts, takes, catches, kills or destroys 
any deer in the town of Isle au Haut, Knox county, 
shall pay a fine of forty dollars and cost for eacn 
offense. (Ch. 198, P. S. L. 1913). 

It shall be unlawful to hunt, chase, catch, kill or 
destroy any deer at any time on Cross island or 
Scotch island, so called, in the county of Washington, 
for a period of ten years from the time this act 
takes effect. It shall also be unlawful for any per- 
son to have in possession at any time any deer killed 
on said Cross island or on Scotch island, so called. 
(Ch. 280, P. S. L. 1909.) 

DEER ISLE AND STONINGTON, HANCOCK 
COUNTY. 

No person shall hunt, catch, kill or destroy at 
any time any deer in the town of Deer Isle or in 
the town of Stonington, in the county of Hancock; 
nor shall any person have in possession at any time 
any deer in the town of Deer Isle or in the town of 



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Stonington, in the county of Hancock; nor shall any 
person have in possession at any time any deer or 
part thereof taken in either of said towns. Whoever 
violates any provision of this act shall pay a fine 
of forty dollars and costs for each offense. (Ch. 123, 
P. & S. L. 1915.) 

RULES AND REGULATIONS OF COMMISSIONERS 
SAGADAHOC COUNTY. 

For a period of four years from November 1st, 
1914, it shall be unlawful for any person to hunt, 
chase, catch, kill or destroy any deer in the town 
of Perkins. 

During the same period it shall also be unlawful 
for any person to have in possession any deer, or 
part thereof, taken in violation of these regulations. 

DAMAGE TO CROPS BY DEER. 

Section 29. If a deer is found 

doing actual, substantial damage to any growing 
cultivated crops, the cultivator of growing cultivated 
crops may kill the same, and may consume the 
same in his own family but not otherwise, but he 
shall not pursue the same beyond the limits of his 
cultivated land in which the damage is being done. 

Provided, further, that whoever kills a deer in ac- 
cordance with the provisions herein contained shall 
forthwith give notice in writing to the commission- 
ers of inland fisheries and game, at Augusta, Maine, 
of the fact of such killing and the character and 
estimated amount of damage done. Whoever fails 
to give such notice shall in no wise be protected by 
the provisions hereof. 

And provided further, that whoever shall culti- 
vate any crops for the manifest purpose of killing 
deer under the provisions of this act shall in no 



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wise be protected thereby; and provided, further, 
that it shall be unlawful to place any salt in any 
place for the purpose of enticing deer thereto. 

Whoever violates any of the provisions of this 
section shall pay a fine of forty dollars and costs 
for each offense. 

USE OF DOGS, JACK LIGHTS, ARTIFICIAL 
LIGHTS, SNARES AND TRAPS PROHIBITED IN 
HUNTING MOOSE, CARIBOU OR DEER. 

Section 30. No person shall at any time hunt, 
catch, take, kill, or destroy, with dogs, jack lights, 
artificial lights, snares, or traps, any moose, caribou 
or deer, under a penalty of one hundred dollars and 
costs for each offence. 

Section 31. Any person owning or having in his 
possession any dog for the purpose of hunting or 
chasing moose, caribou or deer, or who permits any 
dog owned by him or in his possession to hunt Oi 
chase moose, caribou or deer, after notice that such 
dog has chased moose, caribou or deer, shall pay a 
fine of $40 and costs for each offense. 

Ch. 222, P. L., 1909. Section 17. Any person may 
at any time lawfully kill any dog found hunting or 
chasing moose, caribou, or deer, or any dog kept and 
used for that purpose. Any person may lawfully kill 
a dog which suddenly assaults him or another person 
when peaceably walking or riding, or is found 
worrying, wounding, or killing any domestic animal 
when said dog is outside of the enclosure or imme- 
diate care of his owner or keeper. 

DEER CANNOT BE SOLD OR GIVEN AWAY TO 
BE TAKEN OUT OF THIS STATE. 

Section 32. No person shall sell or give away any 
deer or part thereof to be transported or carried be- 



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yond the limits of this state; and no person shall buy 
or accept as a gift any deer or part thereof to so 
transport the same; and no citizen of this State 
shall carry or transport in any manner beyond the 
limits of this State more than one deer or part 
thereof in any one year. Penalty: $40 and costs 
for each offense. 

TRANSPORTATION OF DEER. RESIDENTS MUST 
IDENTIFY SHIPMENTS AT INSPECTION STA- 
TIONS. 

Section 37. Except as herein provided (see sec. 
33 below, also) no person or corporation shall carry 
or transport from place to place any deer or part 
thereof in closed season nor in open season unless 
open to view, tagged, and plainly labeled with the 
name and residence of the owner thereof, and ac- 
companied by him while being transported and iden 
tified by him at such places as the commissioners 
of inland fisheries and game shall have designated 
by publication in the daily newspapers in the state, 
under a penalty of forty dollars and costs for each 
deer or part thereof so transported or carried; and 
any person not the actual owner of such deer or 
part thereof, who, to aid another in such transpor- 
tation, falsely represents himself to be the owner 
thereof, shall be liable to the same penalty; and it 
shall be prima facie evidence that said deer or part 
thereof, that is being transported or carried in vio- 
lation of this section, was illegally killed. 

TRANSPORTATION OF DEER UNDER TAG WITH- 
OUT ACCOMPANYING SAME. 

Section 33. Any citizen of the state who has law- 
fully killed a deer may send the same to his home 
or to any hospital in the state, without accompanying 



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the same, by purchasing of the duly constituted agent 
therefor a tag, paying therefor two dollars, and said 
tag shall be attached to the deer, or part thereof, 
being transported. The commissioners of inland 
fisheries and game may appoint agents in convenient 
localities who may sell these tags, under such rules 
and regulations as said commissioners may adopt. 

ALL NIGHT HUNTING PROHIBITED. 

Ch. 170, P. L. 1915. Section 1. There shall be a 
closed season on wild birds in this State from sun- 
set to sunrise of the following morning, and on wild 
animals from one hour after sunset until one hour 
before sunrise of the following morning, during 
which closed season it shall be unlawful to hunt, kill 
or destroy wild birds or wild animals of any kind. 
No person shall have in possession, at any time, any 
wild bird or wild animal, or part thereof, taken in 
violation of any provision of this section. 

Section 2. Whoever violates any provision of sec- 
tion one of this act shall pay a fine of not less than 
ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars and costs for 
each offense; provided, however, that if protected 
wild birds or wild animals are hunted, killed, 
destroyed or had in possession in violation of said 
section the penalty shall be the same as is now 
imposed therefor during other closed season. 

GRAY SQUIRRELS. 

Sec. 35 as am. by sec. 12, Ch. 277, P. L. 1915. 

There shall be an annual closed season on gray 
squirrels, during which closed season it shall be un- 
lawful to shoot at, kill or have them in possession, 
except alive, from the first day of November of each 
year until the thirtieth day of September of the 
following year, both days inclusive. 



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Provided, however, that there shall be a perpetual 
closed season on gray squirrels within all public or 
private parks and within the limits of the compact 
or built-up portion of any city or village. 

Whoever shall shoot at or kill or have in posses- 
sion any gray squirrel in violation of any of the pro- 
visions of this section shall pay a fine of not more 
than five dollars and costs for each offense. 

ONE LUMBER CAMP MUST NOT HAVE OR USE 
OVER 6 DEER IN ONE SEASON. 

Section 36. It shall be unlawful for any owner, 
keeper or occupant of any camp, house or other 
building used partly or wholly in lumbering opera- 
tions, to have, use or keep in any manner more 
than six deer, in any one open season for deer in 
any one year, under a penalty of forty dollars and 
costs for each deer so had in possession or used in 
"violation hereof. 

WILD HARES OR RABBITS. 

Sec. 38 as am. by Ch. 154, P. L. 1915. 

There shall be an annual closed season on wild 
hares or rabbits during which closed season it shall 
be unlawful to hunt, kill, catch, pursue or have them 
in possession, except alive, during the months of 
April, May, June, July, August and September ot 
each year. 

It shall be unlawful to use any snares, traps or 
other devices in the hunting, pursuing or killing ot 
wild hares or rabbits, or to hunt or kill the same 
except in the ordinary method of shooting with guns 
in the usual manner; provided, however, that it 
shall be lawful to catch wild hares or rabbits in com- 
mon box traps during the open season provided in 
this section. 



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Whoever violates any of the provisions of this 
section shall pay a fine of ten dollars and costs for 
each offense. 

PROTECTION OF BEAVER. 

Sec. 39 as am. by Ch. 222, P. L. 1915. 

The Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game, 
upon written complaint of any land owner that 
beaver are doing actual, substantial damage to his 
property, shall have authority to declare an open 
season for beaver upon such land for such period of 
time as they may deem necessary to remove the 
beaver that are doing the damage complained of, 
during which open season it shall be lawful for any 
licensed hunter and trapper of fur bearing animals 
to trap beaver thereon. No open season for beaver 
as contemplated by this section shall take effect until 
the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game 
shall have caused notice of such proposed open sea- 
son to be published once in a newspaper printed in 
the county in which the land on which the open 
season for beaver is declared is located, and said 
Commissioners shall also file copy of said notice of 
open season with the clerk of the town or plantation 
in which such land is located, or if the land is in 
an unorganized place, with the clerk of courts for 
the county in which the land is located. 

Whenever during a special open season on beaver, 
as is contemplated by this section, it shall appear to 
the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game 
that the privileges of such open season are being 
abused in any place, said Commissioners of Inland 
Fisheries and Game may suspend the open season 
and declare it close season for beaver on such land 
for such time as they may designate. 

It shall be unlawful to take any beaver anywhere 
in the State at any time except during such open 



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season as may be declared by the Commissioners of 
Inland Fisheries and Game in accordance with the 
provisions of this section. 

Whoever takes any beaver in violation of any of 
the provisions of this section shall be subject to a 
penalty of twenty-five dollars and costs for each 
beaver taken, caught or killed in violation of any 
provision of this section. It shall also be unlawful, 
under the same penalty, for any person to have in 
possession at any time, any beaver, or part thereof, 
taken in violation of any provision of this section. 

PROTECTION OF FUR BEARING ANIMALS. 

Sec. 40, as am. by Ch. 334, P. L. 1915. 
Whoever, from the first day of March to the thirty- 
first day of the following October, both days inclu- 
sive, hunts, traps, kills, pursues or catches any fur- 
bearing animal (except bears, muskrats, bob-cats, 
beaver, loup-cervier, Canada lynx, and weasels,) or 
whoever, from the first day of May to the thirty-first 
day of the following October, both days inclusive, 
hunts, traps, kills, pursues or catches, any muskrat, 
shall pay a fine of ten dollars and costs for each 
offense and in addition thereto three dollars for each 
fur bearing animal hunted, trapped, killed, pursued or 
caught in violation hereof, or whoever at any time 
hunts, traps, kills, pursues, catches or has in posses- 
sion any beaver, or part thereof, except as provided 
in section thirty-nine of this chapter, shall pay a fine 
of one hundred dollars and costs for each offense. 

The foregoing provisions shall not 

apply to fur-bearing animals artificially propagated 
and under control of the owner. Provided, however, 
that any person may lawfully kill any wild animal 
(other than beaver) or any wild bird found destroy- 
ing his property. 



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(It will be noted by above law that foxes are now 
protected from Mar 1 to Oct. 31, inc. each year.)* 

Ch. 19, P. L. 1915. 

For a period of 4 years from Jnly 3, 1915, no 
person shall take, catch, trap, kill or destroy any 
muskrat or muskrats at any time in Lower 
Kezar pond, in the town of Fryeburg in the 
county of Oxford, and in the town of Bridgton in 
the county of Cumberland, or in the outlet stream 
of said Lower Kezar pond, or in the Kezar mea- 
dows, so called, adjacent to said pond, (which 
meadows are bounded by the outlet stream of said 
pond, by the old Saco river, by the "Uplands," so 
called, and by the "Upland" on the easterly side of 
said meadows) or in the east bog, so called, or in 
the west bog, so called, bounded by the "Uplands," 
and on the westerly side by a wire fence on land 
owned by E. C. Buzzell. 

No person shall have in possession any muskrat 
or muskrats, or part or parts thereof, taken in vio- 
lation of any provision of this act. 

Whoever violates any provision of this act shall 
pay a fine of ten dollars and costs for each offense; 
and in addition thereto three dollars for each musk- 
rat or part thereof taken, caught, trapped, killed, 
destroyed or had in possession in violation of any 
provision of this act. 

BOUNTY ON BOB CAT, LOUPCERVIER AND 
CANADA LYNX. 

Section 41. A bounty of four dollars for every 
bob cat, loupcervier or Canada lynx killed in any 
town shall be paid by the state treasurer to the 
person killing it upon compliance with the following 
conditions: 



♦Unlawful to dig- out, molest or destroy a fox den from 
Mar. 1 to Oct. 31, inc. Penalty $10 and costs. Ch. 51, P. L. 
1915. 



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No bounty shall be paid unless the claimant, with- 
in five days after he has killed such animal, or has 
returned from the hunting in which he killed it, ex- 
hibits to the town treasurer the entire skin thereof 
with the ears, nose and tail thereon in as perfect a 
state as when killed, except natural decay, and 
signs and makes oath to a certificate which sal a 
treasurer may administer, in which he shall state 
that he killed such animal and the time and place, 
which shall be within the state, and the treasurer 
shall thereupon cut off the whole of the tail from 
such skin and forward the same by mail to the com- 
missioners of inland fisheries and game, at Augusta, 
Maine, together with the claimant's certificate. 

Upon receipt by the state auditor 

of a certificate from the commissioners of inland 
fisheries and game showing that said commissioneih 
have received the tail of the bob cat, loupcervier or 
Canada lynx from the treasurer sent as aforesaid, 
together with said treasurer's certificate, said state 
auditor shall audit the claim for bounty and the 
same shall be paid forthwith by the state treasurer 
to the claimant from the appropriation for bounties 
on bob cat, loupcervier or Canada lynx. 

The town treasurer for making oath to a claim- 
ant's certificate as above, and for forwarding the 
same with the tail of the animal to the commission- 
ers of inland fisheries and game, shall be paid by 
the claimant the sum of twenty-five cents. 

(Note. The blanks on which to make out claims 
for bounty under this section may be obtained by 
writing the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and 
Game, Augusta, Maine.) 

Section 42. It shall be unlawful to hunt, chase, 
catch, kill, destroy or have In possession at any 
time any Hungarian partridge or any capercailzie, 
or cock of the woods, or any black game, or any 



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species of the pheasant, except ruffed grouse, or 
partridge. 

Whoever violates any of the provisions of this 
section shall pay a fine of ten dollars and costs for 
each offense. 

PROTECTION OF GAME BIRDS. 

Sec. 43, as am by Ch. 258, P. L. 1915. 

There shall be an annual closed season for ruffed 
grouse, commonly called partridge, spruce partridge, 
woodcock, all varieties of wild ducks, brant, geese, 
plover, snipe, sora and other rails, coots and galli- 
nules, as follows: 

On partridge and woodcock, above-named, in the 
counties of Oxford, Franklin, Somerset, Piscataquis, 
Penobscot, Aroostook, Washington and Hancock, 
from the fifteenth day of November of each year 
until the fourteenth day of September of the follow- 
ing year, both days inclusive, and in the counties of 
Androscoggin, Cumberland, York, Knox, Waldo, Lin- 
coln, Sagadahoc and Kennebec, from the first day of 
December of each year until the thirtieth day of Sep- 
tember of the following year, both days inclusive; 
on all varieties of ducks, brant and geese, from the 
sixteenth day of December of each year to the 
thirty-first day of August of the following year, both 
days inclusive; on black-breasted and golden plover, 
jacksnipe or Wilson snipe, and greater and lesser 
yellowlegs, from the first day of December of each 
year to the fourteenth day of August of the follow- 
ing year, both days inclusive; on rails, including 
sora, coots and gallinules, from the first day of De- 
cember of each year to the thirty-first day of August 
of the year following, both days inclusive, during 
which closed seasons it shall be unlawful to hunt, 
chase, catch, kill or have in possession any of the 
above-named birds except as hereinafter provided; 



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provided, further, that it shall be unlawful to hunt, 
chase, catch, kill or destroy or have in possession 
at any time, any curlew, woodduck, or any shore 
birds except black-breasted and golden plover, Wil- 
son or jacksnipe, woodcock, and greater and lesser 
yellowlegs; .... 

DAILY LIMIT ON GAME BIRDS. SALE AND 
PURCHASE UNLAWFUL. 
No person shall, during the respec- 
tive open seasons for the above-named birds, take, 
catch, kill, destroy or have in possession in any one 
day more than five partridge or ruffed grouse, ten 
woodcock, ten ducks, five plover and ten snipe; nor 
shall any person at any time buy or sell any of the 
above-named birds; .... 

TRANSPORTATION OF GAME BIRDS WHEN 
ACCOMPANIED BY OWNER. 
Nor shall any person or corpora- 
tion carry or transport from place to place any of 
the birds mentioned in this section in closed season 
(except that a person shall have a reasonable time 
after the beginning of closed season to transport, as 
hereinafter provided, to his home game birds legally 
killed by him in open season), nor in open season 
unless open to view, tagged and plainly labeled with 
the owner's name and residence, and accompanied 
by him, unless tagged with a transportation tag as 
hereinafter provided; nor shall any person or cor- 
poration carry or transport in any one day more than 
ten ducks, five plover, ten snipe, five partridges and 
ten woodcock, as the property of one person. Who- 
ever violates any of the provisions of this section 
shall pay a fine of ten dollars and costs for each 
offense, and in addition thereto one dollar for each 
bird of the above-named varieties taken, caught, 
killed, had in possession or transported in violation 
hereof 



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TRANSPORTATION OF GAME BIRDS BY CITIZEN 
IN THIS STATE UNDER TAG. 

Provided, further, that any citizen 

of this State who has lawfully in his possession one 
pair of either of the birds named in this section, may 
send the same anywhere in this State without ac- 
companying the same, by purchasing of the duly 
constituted agent therefor a transportation tag, pay- 
ing therefor the sum of fifty cents, and attaching 
said tag to the pair of birds. Provided, further, that 
no person shall under any of the provisions of this 
paragraph send as aforesaid more than one pair of 
game birds once in seven days. 

RESIDENT MUST BUY LICENSE BEFORE TAK- 
ING PARTRIDGE, DUCKS OR WOODCOCK OUT 
OF STATE. 

Provided, however, it shall be law- 
ful for a citizen of this State who has purchased a 
transportation tag therefor of the Commissioners of 
Inland Fisheries and Game, and paid five dollars for 
the same, to take with him out of the State five 
partridges or ten ducks or ten woodcock which he 
himself has lawfully killed, by attaching said tag 
to the birds being transported by virtue of this para- 
graph 

Sec. 44, as am. by sec. 13, Ch. 277, P. L. 1915. 
Whoever at any time or at any place with any 
trap, net, snare or contrivance other than the usual 
method of shooting with firearms takes any bird of 
any variety in anywise protected by this chapter 
shall pay a fine of five dollars and costs for each 
bird so taken, and when such prohibited implements 
or devices are found in possession they are forfeit 
jand contraband and may be seized by any person 
authorized to enforce the inland fish and game laws. 



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PROTECTION OF BIRDS OTHER THAN GAME 

BIRDS. 

Section 46. No person shall within the state, kill 
or catch or have in his or her possession, living or 
dead, any wild bird, other than a game bird, nor 
purchase, offer or expose for sale, any such wild 
bird after it has been killed or caught. No part of 
the plumage, skin or body of any bird protected by 
this section shall be sold or had in possession for 
sale. Nor shall any person take or needlessly 
destroy the nest or the eggs of any wild bird, nor 
have such nest or eggs in possession. The English 
or European house sparrow, the common crow, and 
the hawks and owls, mud hens (or bittern), king- 
fishers, loons and blue herons are not included among 
the birds herein protected; and for the purposes of 
this act the following only shall be considered game 
birds; the anatidae, commonly known as swans, 
geese, brant, and river and sea ducks; the rallidae, 
commonly known as rails, coots, and gallinules; the 
limicolae, commonly known as shore birds, plovers, 
surf birds, snipe, woodcock, sandpipers, tatlers ana 
curlews; the gallinae, commonly known as wild 
turkeys, grouse, prairie chickens, pheasants, par- 
tridges and quails. Nothing in this section, how- 
ever, shall be construed to affect in any way the 
protection of game birds, as provided in sections 
42 and 43. Any person who violates any of the 
provisions of this section shall pay a fine of five 
dollars and costs, for each offense, and an additional 
five dollars for each bird, living or dead, or part of 
a bird, or nest, or egg possessed in violation of this 
section, or imprisoned for ten days. 



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MOTOR BOATS CANNOT BE USED FOR HUNTING 
SEA BIRDS, DUCKS OR WATER FOWL IN IN- 
LAND WATERS OR ON CERTAIN WATERS ON 
COAST. 

Sec. 47, as am. by Ch. 345, P. L. 1915. 

It shall be unlawful for any person at any time 
to use a boat or launch of any kind propelled by 
steam, naptha, gasoline or electricity or any other 
mode than the ordinary sail boat or row boat, in 
chasing, hunting or gunning any sea birds, duck oi 
water fowl in any of the inland waters of this State, 
or in the Kennebec river below the Gardiner and 
Randolph bridge, or in Eastern river, or in Merry- 
meeting bay, or in Bluehill bay, on the coast of 
Maine, in Hancock county, or in Eggemoggin reach, 
in said Hancock county, or in Saco bay in Cumberland 
county and in York county, or in Frenchman's bay 
in Hancock county, under a penalty of not less than 
twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dol- 
lars and costs for each offense. 

For the purposes of this act Bluehill bay is de- 
fined and bounded as follows: On the west by Blue- 
hill and Brooklin to the end of Naskeag point; on the 
east by Long island and Tinker's island to Pond 
island; on the south by a direct line from the south- 
ern extremity of said Pond island to the end of Nas- 
keag point. 

For the purposes of this act Eggemoggin reach 
shall be considered to be the waters extending from 
Little Deer Isle to Cape Rosier on the west; thence 
easterly to the end of Naskeag point; thence in a 
direct line to the eastern end of Stinson's neck in 
the eastern part of Deer Isle, said waters being 
bounded on the north by the towns of Brooksville 
Sedgwick and Brooklin and on the south by Deer 
Isle and Little Deer Isle. 



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For the purposes of this act Saco bay shall be con- 
sidered to be the waters lying within those points of 
land marked by Cape Elizabeth Light, in the town 
of Cape Elizabeth, on the east, and by Wood Island 
Light near the entrance to the Saco river,, on the 
west. 

For the purposes of this act Frenchman's bay is 
defined and bounded as follows: On the north by 
the towns of Hancock and Sullivan; on the east by 
the towns of Gouldsboro and Winter Harbor; on the 
south by Mount Desert island and a straight line 
from Schoodic point to Great Head; on the west by 
Thompson's toll bridge. 

SPECIAL HUNTING LAW IN SAGADAHOC 
COUNTY. 

For a period of five years from July 3, 1915, no 
person shall hunt, chase, catch, kill or destroy, at 
any time, any wild bird or any wild animal, within 
the following described territory, situated on the 
southerly point of Swan island, in the town of Per- 
kins: All of the territory situated southerly of the 
land formerly owned by Robert Reed to high water 
mark on the shores thereof. No person shall have 
in possession, at any time, any wild bird or wild 
animal taken in violation of any provision of this 
act. Whoever violates any provision of this act 
shall pay a fine of ten dollars and costs for each 
offense; and in addition thereto one dollar for 
each wild animal or wild bird taken, caught, killed 
or had in possession in violation of any provision 
of this act. (Ch. 93, P. L. 1915.) 

HUNTING ON KINEO POINT PROHIBITED. 

Sec. 48 as am. by Ch. 75, P. L. 1915. 
No person shall at any time, hunt, pursue, shoot at 
or kill any wild animal or bird on Kineo point, in 

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Kineo, in the county of Piscataquis. Whoever vio- 
lates this section shall pay a fine of fifty dollars and 
costs for each offense. 

HUNTING ON CERTAIN LANDS IN EDEN (BAR 
HARBOR) PROHIBITED. 

Section 49. It shall be unlawful, except as herein 
provided, for any person at any time to hunt, pursue, 
shoot at or kill any wild animal or any game or 
other wild bird within the following described terri- 
tory situated in the town of Eden in the county of 
Hancock; bounded on the north and east by the At- 
lantic ocean; on the south by the highway leading 
from Hull's Cove bridge to the Beaver Dam bridge 
near Shea Brothers' farm; and on the west by the 
highway leading from said Beaver Dam bridge to 
Salisbury cove. 

The provisions of this section shall not prohibit 
any person residing within the limits of the above 
described territory from shooting or destroying any 
wild bird, except ruffed grouse or Hungarian part- 
ridge, or any wild animal when found destroying 
his property; and provided, further, that the provi- 
sions of this act shall not be construed to prohibit 
the trapping of wild animals within this territory in 
accordance with the general laws of the state. 

Whoever violates any of the provisions of this 
section shall pay a fine of fifty dollars and costs 
for each offense. 

USE OF FIREARMS AROUND LAKE MEGUNTI- 
COOK AND TRIBUTARIES, KNOX AND WALDO 
COUNTIES. 

(Ch. 133, P. L. 1915.) 
The use of firearms is hereby prohibited from 
the first day of April of each year to the thir- 



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tieth day of September following, both days inclu- 
sive, upon the waters of Megunticook lake, for- 
merly called Canaan lake, and its tributary lakes, 
ponds and streams, and upon the land bordering on 
the same included within the following roads: Be- 
ginning at Hopkins' Corner, in the town of Cam- 
den; thence via the Turnpike road, to Lincolnville 
Centre; thence to Wiley's corner in Lincolnville; 
thence to the Mansfield school house in the town of 
Camden; thence via the fish hatchery to place of 
beginning. All of said lake, its tributaries and 
shores being located in the towns of Camden, Lin- 
colnville and Hope, in the counties of Knox and 
Waldo. 

SPECIAL HUNTING RULES AND REGULATIONS 
OF COMMISSIONERS, CUMBERLAND COUNTY. 

Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person 
at any time to hunt, pursue, shoot at or kill any wild 
animal or game or other wild bird on the one hun- 
dred and twelve (112) acres of land, more or less, 
comprising Prout's Neck, so-called, in the town of 
Scarborough, County of Cumberland, for a period 
of four years from Sept. 15th, A. D., 1914. 

Section 2. During the same period it shall also be 
unlawful for any person to have in possession any 
bird or animal taken in violation of the provisions 
of these regulations. 

Section 3. The provisions of these regulations 
shall not prohibit any person residing within the 
limits of the above described territory from shooting 
or destroying any wild bird or wild animal when 
found destroying his property; and provided, fur- 
ther, that the provisions of these regulations shan 
not be construed to prohibit the trapping of wild 
animals within this territory in accordance with 
the general laws of the State, 



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SPECIAL BIRD HUNTING LAW. BACK BAY, 
PORTLAND, CUMBERLAND COUNTY. 

No person shall hunt, chase, catch, kill or destroy 
any water fowl or any other wild bird, at any time, 
in Back Bay, in Portland, in the county of Cum- 
berland, above the Grand Trunk railway bridge*. 
No person shall have in possession at any time, any 
water fowl or any other wild bird taken in viola- 
tion of any provision of this act. Whoever violates 
any provision of this act shall pay a fine of ten dol- 
lars and costs for each offense; and in addition 
thereto one dollar for each bird taken, caught, 
killed, destroyed or had in possession in violation 
of any provision of this act. (Ch. 153, P. L. 1915). 

ALL SUNDAY HUNTING PROHIBITED. 

Sec. 50 as am. by sec. 14, ch. 277, P. L. 1915. 
Sunday is a closed season, on which it is not law- 
ful to hunt, kill or destroy any wild animals or wild 
birds of any kind. Whoever hunts, kills, or destroys 
any wild animal or wild bird on Sunday shall pay a 
fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than forty 
dollars and costs for each offense; provided, how- 
ever, that if protected wild animals or wild birds 
are hunted, killed, destroyed or had in possession in 
violation of this section, the penalty shall be the 
same as is now imposed therefor during other closed 
season; but the penalties imposed for the violation 
of the Sunday laws by the statutes of this state are 
not hereby repealed or diminished. 

NON-RESIDENT HUNTING LICENSES. 

Sec. 51, as am. by Ch. 230, P. L. 1915. 

Persons not bona fide residents of the State, and 

actually domiciled therein, shall not hunt, pursue, 

take or kill any deer, ducks, partridges, woodcock, 

or other wild birds or wild animals, or have the 



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same or any part thereof, in possession, at any time 
without first having procured a license therefor as 
hereinafter provided. 

Such licenses shall be issued by the Commission- 
ers of Inland Fisheries and Game, upon application 
in writing and payment of fifteen dollars to hunt 
deer, ducks, partridges, woodcock and other birds 
and wild animals during their respective open sea- 
sons, and in the manner provided by law, in Octo- 
ber, November and December. But to hunt ducks, 
and other birds and wild animals in their respective 
open seasons, and in the manner provided by law, 
in the counties of Aroostook, Washington, Hancock, 
Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset, Franklin and Ox- 
ford up to October first of each year a license fee of 
five dollars shall be paid annually, provided, fur- 
ther, that in the counties of Androscoggin, Cumber- 
land, Knox, Kennebec, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo 
and York such person may procure a license for 
five dollars to hunt, in the respective open seasons 
and in the manner provided by law, ducks, 
partridges, woodcock and other birds and wild ani- 
mals except during the month of November, during 
which month a fifteen dollar license shall be re- 
quired in said counties. A person having paid the 
fee of five dollars may procure a license to hunt 
deer and other wild animals and wild birds, in 
their respective open seasons and in the manner 
provided by law, during the open season on deer by 
paying an additional fee of ten dollars. 

Such license shall entitle the purchaser to take 
to his home in addition as now provided, properly 
tagged with the tag detached from his license, and 
open to view, five partridges, ten ducks and ten 
woodcock that he has himself lawfully killed under 
such rules and regulations to be established by the 
Commissioners as may be required to carry out 



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the true intent of this chapter and not inconsistent 
herewith. 

Each license shall be provided with two coupons, 
each of which shall permit the transportation of the 
carcass of one deer, or part thereof, and shall be 
divided into two sections each, lettered "A" and "B" 
and "C" and "D" respectively, and shall be called 
the deer coupons. 

The holder of a non-resident hunter's license shall 
be entitled to offer for transportation and have 
transported, within or without this State, by any 
railroad company, express company, boat or other 
transportation company, the carcass of one deer, or 
part of the carcass of one deer, that he himself has 
lawfully killed, on each of the deer coupons at- 
tached to his said license, by presenting to the agent 
of any transportation company, his lice'nse, with the 
coupons attached to the license at the time when 
he shall offer the deer or part thereof for ship- 
ment. If but one deer is offered for shipment 
the agent shall detach section "A" from the 
first "deer" coupon of the license, cancel the same 
by writing or stamping thereon the date and place 
of shipment and his name, and shall forward the 
same forthwith to the Commissioners of Inland 
Fisheries and Game, at Augusta, Maine; section 
"B" of said coupon shall be likewise cancelled and 
shall be attached to the carcass, or part of the 
carcass, of the deer offered for shipment and shall 
remain attached to the same while it is being trans- 
snorted in this State. 

In case two deer are offered for shipment the 
agent receiving the same for shipment shall detach 
sections "A" and "C" from the "deer" coupons and 
after cancelling the same shall forward them to the 
Commissioners as aforesaid, and sections "B" and 
"D" shall be likewise cancelled and attached to the 



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carcasses of the deer, or parts thereof, offered for 
shipment, and shall remain attached to the same 
while they are being transported in this State. 

No person shall transport any deer, or part there- 
of, for any non-resident, otherwise than as provided 
herein. No agent, servant or employee of any trans- 
portation company, railroad company, express com- 
pany, boat or common carrier shall receive for 
shipment or transport, or have in his possession 
with intent to ship or transport any carcass of a 
deer, or part of the same, or any game birds, for a 
non-resident, except as herein provided, or refuse or 
neglect to detach the sections of the coupons as 
herein provided, or fail to forward to the Commis- 
sioners of Inland Fisheries and Game, at Augusta, 
Maine, as herein provided, the sections of coupons 
by him detached; provided, however, that any per- 
son who has purchased a non-resident hunter's li- 
cense and who has in his possession one pair of 
game birds which he has legally killed may trans- 
port the same to his home or to any hospital in this 
State without accompanying the shipment, by pur- 
chasing of the duly constituted agent therefor a tag, 
paying for the same fifty cents, and by presenting 
said tag with the pair of game birds offered for ship- 
ment to the agent of any transportation company or 
common carrier, together with his non-resident's 
hunter's license. 

Before accepting a pair of game birds for ship- 
ment as herein provided, the agent of the transpor- 
tation company or common carrier to whom the 
same is offered for shipment shall be satisfied that 
the person presenting the pair of game birds for 
shipment is the person to whom the non-resident 
hunter's license offered for inspection was issued, 
and shall securely affix the tag to such shipment; 
provided, further, that no person shall send more 



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than one pair of game birds under a special tag, as 
provided herein, but once in thirty days. 

Whoever violates any provision of this section or 
who shall furnish to another person, or permits 
another person to have or use any license or coupon 
issued to him, or change or alter the same in any 
manner, or who has or uses any license or coupon 
issued to another person, or whoever knowingly 
guides any non-resident in hunting who has not a 
license to hunt as herein provided, shall pay a fine of 
not less than twenty-five, nor more than one hun- 
dred dollars and costs, for each offense. 

Section 52. Whoever introduces any wild bird or 
wild animal of any kind or species into the state, 
except upon written permission of the commission- 
ers of inland fisheries and game, shall forfeit not less 
than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars 
for each offense. 

NON-RESIDENTS MUST EMPLOY GUIDES IN 
CERTAIN CASES. 

Section 53. Non-residents of the state shall not 
enter upon the wild lands of the state and camp or 
kindle fires thereon while engaged in hunting or 
fishing, without being in charge of a registered 
guide, during the months of May, June, July, August, 
September, October and November, and no regis- 
tered guide shall, at the same time, guide or be em- 
ployed by more than five non-residents in hunting. 

' Any such non-resident who enters 

upon the wild lands of the state and camps or kin- 
dles fires thereon, while engaged in hunting or fish- 
ing without being in charge of a registered guide, 
during the months of May, June, July, August, Sep- 
tember, October and November, in violation of the 
provisions herein contained, or any guide who shall 
guide at the same time, or be employed by, at the 



same time, more than five non-residents in hunting, 
shall pay a fine of $40 and costs for each offense. 

UNNATURALIZED FOREIGN BORN RESIDENT 
HUNTING LICENSE LAW. 

Sec. 55, as am. by sec. 15, P. L. 1915. 

Section 55. It shall be unlawful for any unnatural- 
ized foreign-born person who is not a taxpayer upon 
real estate within this state and who has not resided 
within the limits of this state for two years con- 
tinuously prior to the time he desires to hunt, to 
hunt in any manner, at any time, or pursue, catch, 
kill or have in possession any wild animals or birds, 
within the limits of this state, unless he is annually 
licensed so to do as. hereinafter provided. 

The Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game, 
upon the application of any unnaturalized foreign- 
born person who is a resident of any city, town or 
plantation within the state, and upon the payment 
of a fee of fifteen dollars may issue to such person a 
license upon a form to be supplied by them, bear- 
ing the name, age and place of residence of the 
licensee with a description of him as near as may 
be, authorizing the said licensee to hunt and kill 
game birds, game or other wild animals on any 
lands on which said hunting or killing is not forbid- 
den by law, or by written or printed notices posted 
thereon by the owner, lessee or occupant thereof. 
Such license shall authorize the hunting or killing 
of game birds, game or other wild animals only in 
their respective open seasons and in the manner 
provided by law. Said licenses shall not be trans- 
ferable and shall be exhibited upon demand to any 
of the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game, 
and to any inland fish and game warden or deputy 
inland fish and game warden, and to any sheriff, 
constable, police officer or other officer qualified to 



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serve process. The fees received from said licenses 
shall annually be paid into the state treasury. 

No unnaturalized, foreign-born person required to 
be licensed under the provisions of this section shall 
have in possession, when he is upon the wild lands 
or in the woods or fields of the state, any firearm or 
firearms unless he is licensed as herein provided and 
all firearms found in his possession in violation of 
this section shall be forfeit and contraband and" 
shall be seized by any person authorized to enforce 
the inland fish and game laws. All firearms seized 
by virtue of this section shall forthwith be for- 
warded to the Commissioners at Augusta by the 
person seizing the same, and upon conviction of 
the person or persons from whom they were seized 
said firearms shall be sold, the proceeds from such 
sale to be paid to the Treasurer of State. 

Whoever violates any provision of this section 
shall pay a fine of $25 and costs, for each offense. 

GUIDES MUST BE LICENSED. 

Sec. 56, as am. by Ch. 234, P. L. 1915. 
No person shall engage in the business of guid- 
ing, either for inland fishing or forest hunting, until 
he shall have filed with the commissioners of in- 
land fisheries and game a certificate and affidavit 
signed by the municipal officers, or a majority 
thereof, of the town or plantation within which the 
applicant resides, or, if the applicant is a resident 
of an unorganized place, a certificate and affidavit 
signed by the municipal officers, or a majority 
thereof, of the nearest town or plantation, setting 
forth in substance that the applicant is a person 
of good moral character and sobriety, and is deemed 
by them to be a suitable person to receive a certifi- 
cate as a guide, and until he has caused his name, 
age and residence to be recorded in a book kept for 



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that purpose by said commissioners and has pro- 
cured a certificate from said commissioners, setting 
forth in substance that he is deemed suitable to act 
as a guide, either for inland fishing or forest hunting 
or both, as the case may be, under a penalty of 
fifty dollars and costs for each offense. Each regis- 
tered guide shall, from time to time, as often as 
requested by the commissioners, forward, on blanks 
furnished him by the commissioners, a statement of 
the number of persons he has guided in inland fish- 
ing and forest hunting during the time called for in 
said statement, the number of days he has been em- 
ployed as a guide, and such other useful informa- 
tion relative to inland fish and game, forest fires, 
and the preservation of the forests in the localities 
where he has guided, as the commissioners may 
deem of importance to the State, under a penalty o[ 
fifty dollars for unreasonably or wilfully refusing to 
comply with these requirements. 

Such registration shall be as follows: The appli- 
cant shall apply in writing or personally to the com- 
missioners for registration, or to some person desig- 
nated by the commissioners, setting forth in his ap- 
plication whether he desires to be registered as a 
general or local guide; and the commissioners shall, 
as soon thereafter as may be, register such person 
as a guide in such class as they shall deem proper, 
after such investigation as they shall deem proper; 
but said commissioners may refuse to register any 
applicant whom they may deem unfit to be a guide, 
and may, for cause shown after due notice and 
hearing, cancel any registration by them made, and 
may advance anyone from the local class to the 
general class, whenever they shall deem such per- 
son qualified to be a general guide. A fee of one 
dollar shall be paid annually for the registration as 
herein provided. 



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No person shall receive a certificate as a general 
guide unless he be at least twenty years of age, of 
good repute, and friendly to the inland fish and 
game laws, and will discountenance in all proper 
ways all violations thereof. He shall be thoroughly 
competent to traverse the hunting grounds in which 
he is licensed to guide and shall be skilled in the 
use, management, and handling of such boats or 
canoes, on lake, pond, or river, as are used in the 
territory in which he is authorized to guide, and 
shall be a safe person under all circumstances to 
be a guide for inland fishing and forest hunting 
parties. A person may receive a certificate as a 
local guide who does not, in the judgment of the 
commissioners, possess all the necessary qualifica- 
tions of a general guide, yet is deemed suitable to 
act as such under certain conditions; and guides 
may be restricted in the territory in which they are 
permitted to guide. The commissioners of inland 
fisheries and game may, in their discretion, license 
as guides such non-residents as reside in territory 
contiguous to the State under such conditions as are 
herein provided for the registration of resident 
guides; the fee for such non-resident guide license 
shall be twenty dollars. 

Whenever a guide registered, as provided in this 
section, violates any of the inland fish and game 
laws, the commissioners may, at their discretion, 
cancel his certificate of registration and strike his 
name from the list of registered guides; but such 
person may thereafter be registered again at the 
discretion of the commissioners. Any certificate 
cancelled by virtue of this section shall be immedi- 
ately returned to the commissioners, under a penalty 
of fifty dollars for refusal or neglect to comply 
with this requirement. 



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SPORTING CAMPS IN UNORGANIZED TOWN- 
SHIPS IN MAINE FORESTRY DIST. MUST BE 
LICENSED. 

Section 57. No person shall maintain, occupy or 
keep a sporting camp, lodge or place of resort for 
inland hunting or fishing parties within the limits of 
any of the unorganized townships embraced in the 
Maine Forestry District without annually procuring 
a license therefor of the commissioners of inland 
fisheries and game and paying therefor a fee of five 
dollars; but such license shall not be granted unless 
the person applying for the same files with his ap- 
plication therefor the written consent of the owner 
or owners of the land, or his or their agent, upon 
which such sporting camp, lodge or place of resort 
for inland fishing and hunting parties is or may be 
located, and such licensed persons may purchase 
for consumption in their sporting camps, lodges or 
places of resort, deer lawfully killed, but they shall 
keep a record of all such purchases, of whom pur- 
chased and the date of the purchase, and on Decem- 
ber fifteenth of each year shall send such record 
to the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, 
first making oath to the same; the commissioners of 
inland fisheries and game may refuse to issue a li- 
cense or licenses to such person or persons as they 
deem unsuitable. 

Whoever violates any of the provisions of this 
section shall pay a fine of fifty dollars and costs 
for each offense. 

TRAPPING LAWS. 

TRAPPERS OF FUR BEARING ANIMALS MUST 
BE LICENSED. 

Section 58. Whoever hunts, captures or traps any 
of the fur bearing animals of the state in any of the 



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unorganized townships of the state shall annually 
procure a license therefor of the commissioners of 
inland fisheries and game, paying therefor a fee of 
five dollars; and he shall, on or before December 
fifteenth of each year, make such report to said 
commissioners as may be called for by them. 

Whoever violates any of the provisions of this 
section shall pay a fine of fifty dollars and costs for 
each offense. 

TRAPS MUST BE MARKED. 

Sec. 59, as am. by sec. 16, ch. 277, P. L. 1915. 
No person shall at any time set a snare for any 
fur-bearing animal, nor shall any person at any time 
set any trap or traps of any kind for any wild animal 
without having the trap or traps plainly labeled with 
his full name and address, either by having the 
same stamped on the trap or on a metal tag, firmly 
attached to the trap. Whoever violates any provi- 
sion of this section shall pay a fine of five dollars 
and costs for each offense and in addition thereto 
five dollars for each trap set and not marked as pro- 
vided herein, and shall forfeit the trap or traps, and 
any wild animal found therein, to any person finding 
the same 

BEAR TRAP MUST BE ENCLOSED IN A "HUT" 
AND NOTICE MUST BE POSTED NEAR TRAP. 

Sec. 59, as am. 
Provided, further, that no person shall set a bear 
trap at any time unless a written or printed notice 
stating that such a trap has been set is posted con- 
spicuously in the immediate vicinity, under a pen- 
alty of $50 and costs for each offense, and no person 
shall set a bear trap at any time unless the same is 
enclosed in a hut, so-called, under the same penalty. 



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TRAPS MUST BE VISITED. 

Sec. 60, as am. by sec. 17, Ch. 277, P. L. 1915. 
Any person setting a trap in any organized or 
incorporated place shall visit said trap, or cause the 
same to be visited, at least once in every twenty- 
four hours and remove therefrom, or cause to be re- 
moved, any animal found caught therein. No per- 
son shall set traps in any organized or incorporated 
place without first obtaining the written consent of 
the owner or occupant of the land on which said 
traps are to be set. Any person violating any of the 
provisions of tUis section shall pay a fine of not less 
than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars and 
costs for each offense. 

Section 40. It shall be unlawful 

to set a trap within twenty-five feet of a muskrat 
house, under penalty of ten dollars and costs for 
each offense. 

DEALERS IN DEER SKINS AND HEADS MUST BE 
LICENSED. 

Sec. 61 as am. by sec. 18, ch. 277, P. L. 1915. 
The Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game 
may annually issue licenses to residents of this state 
to buy and sell deer skins, and the heads of deer if 
not detached from said skins, during the months of 
October, November and December. Such licensee 
shall keep a record, which shall be open to inspection 
by the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game 
or any person authorized to enforce the inland fish 
and game laws, of all such heads and skins pur- 
chased, of whom purchased and the date of each 
purchase, and shall send such record annually to the 
Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game on or 
before the twentieth day of December of each year. 
The fee for such license shall be ten dollars, to be 
paid to the said Commissioners. All deer skins and 



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deer heads purchased by virtue of this section shall 
be transported only under such rules, restrictions 
and limitations as shall, from time to time, be made 
by said commissioners. Whoever buys any skins or 
heads of deer without being licensed as herein pro- 
vided, or whoever, licensed as aforesaid, neglects to 
keep the record and forward the same to said com- 
missioners as herein provided, or whoever refuses 
to exhibit said record upon request to the Commis- 
sioners of Inland Fisheries and Game or to any 
person authorized to enforce the inland fish and 
game laws, shall pay a fine of fifty dollars and costs 
for each offense. 

DEALERS IN SKINS OF FUR BEARING ANIMALS 
MUST BE LICENSED. 

Sec. 62 as am. by sec. 19, ch. 277, P. L. 1915. 
The Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game 
may annually issue licenses to residents of this 
state to engage in the business of buying otter, sable 
or fisher skins or the skins of any other fur-bearing 
bearing animals. Said licensee shall keep a record, 
which shall be open to inspection by the Commis- 
sioners of Inland Fisheries and Game or any person 
authorized to enforce the inland fish and game laws, 
of all skins purchased, as aforesaid, in an appro- 
priate book furnished them by the said commission- 
ers, and shall send such record, under oath, to said 
commissioners on or before the twentieth day of 
December of each year. The fee for such license 
shall be two dollars to be paid to the said commis- 
sioners. Whoever buys any skins of otter, sable or 
fisher or the skins of any other fur-bearing animals 
without being licensed as herein provided, or who- 
ever, licensed as aforesaid, neglects to keep the 
record and forward the same to said commissioners 
as herein provided, or whoever refuses to exhibit 



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said book for inspection by the Commissioners of 
Inland Fisheries and Game or any person author- 
ized to enforce the inland fish and game laws, shall 
pay a fine of ten dollars and cost for each offense. 
All skins of fur-bearing animals bought in violation 
of the provisions of this section shall be forfeit and 
contraband and shall be seized by any person au- 
thorized to enforce the inland fish and game laws 
and upon conviction of the person or persons from 
whom they were seized, they shall be sold, the pro- 
ceeds from such sale to be paid to the treasurer of 
state. 

MARKETMEN MUST BE LICENSED TO DEAL IN 
DEER MEAT. 

Section 63. Any markeitman or provision dealer 
having an established place of business in the state, 
may purchase and have in possesion at his said 
place of business not more than three deer, lawfully 
killed or destroyed, or any part thereof, at one time, 
and may sell the same at retail to his local custo- 
mers, and may sell the heads of such deer to any 
licensed taxidermist; provided, however, that said 
marketman or provision dealer, shall annually pro- 
cure a license of the commissioners of inland fish- 
eries and game to carry on said business of buying 
and selling deer as aforesaid; and provided further, 
that said marketman shall record in a book kept for 
that purpose, and open to the inspection of inland 
fish and game wardens and the commissioners of 
inland fisheries and game, the name and residence 
of each person of whom he purchases any deer, and 
the date of such purchase; and if any marketman or 
provision dealer shall violate any of the provisions 
of this section, he shall pay a fine of five hundred 
dollars for each offense, and be prohibited for five 
years thereafter from the benefits of this section. 
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All marketmen or provision dealers licensed as 
aforesaid shall pay to the commissioners of inland 
fisheries and game in cities and towns of over three 
thousand inhabitants, five dollars annually, and three 
dollars in all other places; said marketmen and pro- 
vision dealers holding these licenses shall, on De- 
cember twentieth, make, sign and send to the com- 
missioners, under oath, a statement setting forth 
in detail the number of deer by them bought, and 
of whom bought, and the date of each purchase, dur 
ing the time covered by their licenses; and whoever 
fails to make the report required in this section shall 
pay a fine of one~hundred dollars and costs. 

TAXIDERMISTS' LICENSES. 

Section 64. The commissioners of inland fisheries 
and game may, upon application and payment of a 
fee of two dollars by the applicant, issue a license to 
such persons as taxidermists, who, in their judg- 
ment, are skilled in that art, of good reputation, and 
friendly to the inland fish and game laws of the 
state; taxidermists licensed as aforesaid may at all 
times have in their possession, at their places of 
business, fish and game lawfully caught or killed in 
open time for the sole purpose of preparing for and 
mounting the same; and such fish and game, or 
parts thereof, may be transported to such licensee 
and retained by him for the purposes aforesaid, 
under such rules, restrictions and limitations as 
shall from time to time, be made by said commis- 
sioners. Such licenses may be revoked by said 
commissioners, at any time after notice and an op- 
portunity for a hearing; such licenses shall expire 
with the calendar year in which issued, and each 
person so licensed shall, on or before December 
twentieth of each year, make a detailed report to 
said commissioners of all they have done during the 



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year by virtue of such license; and every licensee or 
common carrier violating any of the provisions of 
this chapter, or any of the rules, restrictions, or lim- 
itations made by said commissioners in accordance 
with the provisions of this section, shall pay a fine 
of not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars 
and costs for each offence. 



WHEN LICENSES EXPIRE. 

Section 65. All licenses or certificates issued by 
virtue of the provisions of this act shall expire with 
the calendar year in which issued. 



WARDENS— APPOINTMENT AND DUTIES. 

Section 66. The governor, with the advice and 
consent of ttie council, upon the recommendation of 
the commissioners of inland' fisheries and game, may 
appoint suitable persons as inland fish and game 
wardens, who shall hold office for a term of three 
years unless sooner removed, and who shall enforce 
all laws relating to inland fisheries and game, and 
all rules and regulations in relation thereto, arrest 
all violators thereof, and prosecute all offenses 
against the same; said inland fish and game war- 
dens shall have the same power to serve criminal 
processes against such offenders, and shall be al- 
lowed the same fees as sheriffs, for like services, 
and they shall have the same right as sheriffs to re- 
quire aid in executing the duties of their office. 
They shall, before being qualified to discharge the 
duties required by this act, give bond to the treas- 
urer of the state, with two good and sufficient sure- 
ties, in the penal sum of two thousand dollars, ap- 
proved by the commissioners of inland fisheries and 



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game, conditioned for the faithful performance of 
the duties of their office. Inland fish and game war- 
dens may serve all processes pertaining to the col- 
lection of penalties for violation of the inland fish 
and game laws. 

Sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, police officers and consta- 
bles are vested with the powers of inland fish and 
game wardens, and shall receive for their services 
the same fees. 

DEPUTY WARDENS. 

Section 67. The commissioners of inland fisheries 
and game may appoint inland fish and game deputy 
wardens and may revoke such appointments at any 
time. The appointment and discharge of such depu- 
ty wardens shall be in writing, and they shall have 
the same powers and be subject to the same laws, 
as inland fish and game wardens appointed by the 
governor and council. All such appointments shall 
terminate with the calendar year in which the ap- 
pointment is made. 

SEIZURE OF FISH, GAME AND BIRDS. 

Section 68. All birds, fish, game or other pro- 
tected wild animals, hunted, caught, killed, destroyed, 
bought, sold, carried, transported, or found in pos- 
session' of any person or corporation, in violation 
of any of the provisions of this chapter, shall be 
liable to seizure; and in case of conviction for such 
violation, the same shall be forfeited to the state, to 
be sold for the benefit of the state. Any person 
whose fish, game, or birds has been seized for viola- 
tion of any game or fish law, shall have it returned 
to him on giving to the officer a bond with sufficient 
sureties, residents of the state, in double the amount 
of the fine for such violation, on condition that, if 



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convicted of such violation, he will, within thirty 
days thereafter, pay such fine and costs. If he neg- 
lects or refuses to give such bond and take the 
game, fish or birds so seized, he shall have no ac- 
tion against the officer for such seizure or for the 
loss of the game or fish seized. 

SEARCH AND SEIZURE. 

Section 69. The commissioners of inland fisheries 
and game and every inland fish and game warden 
may arrest, with or without a warrant, any person 
whom he has reason to believe guilty of a violation 
thereof, and with or without a warrant may open, 
enter and examine all buildings, camps, vessels, 
boats, wagons, cars, stages, tents, and other recep- 
tacles and places, and examine all boxes, barrels 
and packages where he has reason to believe that 
game, fish or game birds or protected wild animals, 
or parts thereof, taken or held in violation of this 
chapter are to be found, and seize such game, fish, 
or game birds or wild animals, or parts thereof, if 
any be found therein, but no dwelling-house shall be 
searched for the above purposes without a warrant 
and then only in the day time, and no sealed rail- 
road car shall be entered for the above purposes 
without such warrant. Any magistrate may issue 
warrants to search, within his jurisdiction, any 
dwelling-house, in the day time, or any other place 
at any time, for the purposes above set forth, to any 
inland fish and game commissioner or to any inland 
fish or game warden, sheriff or any of his deputies; 
such warrant shall be issued subject to the require- 
ments of section thirteen of chapter one hundred 
and thirty-three of the revised statutes; provided, 
however, that the inland fish and game commission- 
ers shall, on or before October first of each year, 
in writing, notify the superintendents of all trans- 



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portation companies doing business within the state 
of the names of the inland fish and game wardens 
by them designated to exercise the right of search 
of railroad cars as herein provided, which number 
shall not exceed four for any one transportation 
company, and no others shall, except those so desig- 
nated, be authorized to exercise the powers herein 
mentioned as to search of railroad cars. 

ARREST OF VIOLATORS AND JURISDICTION OF 

COURTS. 

Section 70. Any officer authorized to enforce the 
inland fish and game laws may, without process, ar- 
rest any violator of any of said laws, and shall with 
reasonable diligence, cause him to be taken before 
any trial justice or any municipal or police court, 
in the county where the offense was committed, or 
in any adjoining county, for a warrant and trial. 
Jurisdiction in such cases is hereby granted to all 
trial justices and all other courts to be exercised in 
the same manner as if the offense had been com- 
mitted in that county; and any officer who shall ma- 
liciously, or without probable cause, abuse his power 
in such proceedings shall upon conviction pay a fine 
not exceeding one hundred dollars and costs, or im- 
prisonment not exceeding three months. 

Section 71. Trial justices, police and municipal 
courts within their counties shall have, upon com- 
plaint, original and concurrent jurisdiction with the 
supreme judicial and superior courts in all prosecu- 
tions under any inland fish and game law. 

FINES AND PENALTIES— COLLECTION AND 
DISPOSITION OF. 

Section 72. All fines and penalties recovered, or 
money received or collected, under any of the provi- 
sions of this chapter, aft^r deducting legal taxible 



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costs, shall be paid forthwith by the person receiv- 
ing the same to the commissioners of inland fisheries 
and game, at Augusta, Maine, to be paid by them to 
the treasurer of state. 

Any officer or other person who shall receive any 
fine or penalty or any part thereof, for the violation 
of any inland fish or game law, and shall neglect for 
more than thirty days to pay the same to the com- 
missioners of inland fisheries and game, as herein 
provided, shall pay a fine of not less than fifty nor 
more than one hundred dollars and costs of prose- 
cution. 

SERVICE OF WARRANTS ON CORPORATION. 

Section 73. In case of a violation of any of the 
provisions of this chapter by a corporation, the war- 
rant may be served by an attested copy on the pres- 
ident, secretary, manager, or any general agent 
thereof in the county where the action is pending, 
and upon return of such warrant so served, the cor- 
poration shall be deemed in court and subject to 
the jurisdiction thereof, and any fine imposed may 
be collected by execution against the property of 
such corporation; but this section shall not be 
deemed to exempt any agent or employee from pro- 
secution. 

LICENSES, CERTIFICATES AND PERMITS MAY 
BE CANCELLED. 

Section 74. If the holder of any license, certifi- 
cate, or permit, issued in conformity with any of the 
provisions of this chapter, shall flagrantly or know- 
ingly violate or countenance the violation of any of 
the provisions of this chapter, such license, certifi- 
cate or permit may be revoked by the commission- 
ers of inland fisheries and game after due notice 
given of the alleged violation, and an opportunity 



afforded to appear and show cause against the 
same. 

DUTIES OF COUNTY ATTORNEYS. 

Section 75. Each county attorney shall prosecute 
all violations of this chapter occurring within his 
county, when such cases may come to his knowledge, 
or when he may be so requested by the commis- 
sioners of inland fisheries and game or any officer 
charged with its enforcement, such prosecution shall 
at all times be subject to the supervision and con- 
trol of the commissioners. 

PARTICIPANT IN VIOLATION MUST TESTIFY. 

Section 76. In any prosecution under this chapter, 
any participant in a violation thereof, when so re- 
quested by the county attorney, commissioners of 
inland fisheries and game or other officer institut- 
ing the prosecution, may be compelled to testify as 
a witness against any other person charged with 
violating the same, but his evidence so given shall 
not be used against himself in any prosecution for 
such violation. 

SEIZURES AND PROSECUTIONS MUST BE 
REPORTED. 

Section 77. Every magistrate or the clerk of the 
court before whom any prosecution under this chap- 
ter is commenced, or shall go on appeal, within 
twenty days after the trial or dismissal thereof shall 
report in writing the result thereof and the amount 
of fines collected, if any, and the disposition thereor 
to the commissioners of inland fisheries and game 
at Augusta. 

Section 78. In all cases, the officer making the 
seizure or sale of fish, game or birds, shall within 
ten days thereafter, report all the particulars thereof 



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and an itemized statement of the proceeds, expenses 
and fees, and the disposition thereof to the commis- 
sioners of inland fisheries and game at Augusta. 
The failure of any person or officer to perform any 
act, duty, or obligation enjoined upon him by this 
chapter, shall be deemed a violation thereof. 

CITIES, TOWNS AND PLANTATIONS MAY ELECT 
INLAND FISH AND GAME WARDENS. 

Section 79. Any city, town or plantation in which 
there is a lake or a pond that has been stocked with 
fish by the state and screened partly by the state 
and partly by the town or by private subscription, 
may, at its annual election, elect an inland fish and 
game warden, with all the powers of other inland 
fish and game wardens, whose duty it shall be to 
care for and protect said screen. 

MOTOR BOATS MUST BE MUFFLED CH. 111, 
P. L. 1913. 

Section 1. All motor boats run or operated in any 
tidal or other waters within the state, shall be pro- 
vided or equipped with proper and suitable mufflers 
or other devices which shall effectually deaden 
sound. Said mufflers shall be used all the time 
the engine of the motor boat is in operation; pro- 
vided it shall be allowable to cut out said mufflers, 
in case of boats while entered and competing in 
boat races held under the auspices of some regularly 
organized club, between the hours of eight o'clock 
in the morning and sunset following. 

Section 2. Any muffling device approved by the 
United States inspectors having jurisdiction of the 
tidal waters of this state shall, in case of motor 
boats run or operated on such tidal or other waters 
in the state, be deemed to be a compliance with this 



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act, provided such defense shall be set up and proved 
by the defendant. 

Section 3. Any violation of this act shall be 
deemed a common nuisance within the meaning of 
section twelve of chapter twenty-two of the Revised 
Statutes. 

Section 4. Whoever violates the provisions of this 
act between eight o'clock in the forenoon and eight 
o'clock at night, shall be punished by a fine of not 
less than five dollars nor over twenty-five dollars; 
whoever violates the provisions of this act between 
eight o'clock in the afternoon and eight o'clock in 
the forenoon shall be subject to a double penalty. 

Section 5. Chapter sixty-four of the Public Laws 
of 1909 is hereby repealed. 

CHAPTER 79, P. L., 1911. 

AN ACT TO PREVENT COLLISIONS ON INLAND 

WATERS. 

Section 1. Every boat navigating any lake, river, 
stream, pond or other inland waters of this state, 
between the hours of sunset and sunrise, whether 
propelled by means of steam or any other power, 
shall show either a bright white light of such a 
character and so placed as to be visible on a clear 
dark night, at least one-half mile in every direction, 
or instead thereof one green light on the starboard 
side and one red light on the port side, so con- 
structed as to sliow an unbroken light over arc of 
the horizon of ten points of the compass so fixed as 
to throw the light from right ahead to two points 
abaft the beam on the starboard and port sides, 
respectively, and of such a character as to be visi- 
ble at least two thousand feet on a clear dark night. 

Section 2. Whoever neglects or wilfully refuses 
to observe the provisions of the preceding section 
shall be liable to a penalty of ten dollars, and for all 
damages sustained by any person thereby. 



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TRESPASS LAW. 

Revised Statutes of Maine, ch. 128, Section 15. 
Whoever wilfully enters on or passes over the gar- 
den, orchard, mowing land or other enclosed or cul- 
tivated land of another, between the first days of 
April and December, after being forbidden so to do 
by the owner or occupant of said land or his agent, 
either personally or by notice posted conspicuously 
on the premises, is guilty of trespass, and shall be 
punished by fine not exceeding twenty dollars, and 
section seventeen applies to violations of this sec- 
tion. 

Section 17. The owner of such place, or any per- 
son employed in its cultivation, or rightfully in the 
possession thereof, may arrest any person found vio- 
lating the preceding section, and carry him before 
any magistrate within the county where the arrest 
is made. 

PENALTY FOR FALSELY ASSUMING TO BE A 
WARDEN OR COMMISSIONER. 

Sec. 24, ch 123, R. S. Whoever falsely assumes to 
be a justice of the peace, sheriff, deputy sheriff, 
coroner, or constable, or inland fish and game war- 
den, or a commissioner of inland fisheries and game, 
and to act as such, or to require any one to aid him 
in a matter pertaining to the duty of such office, shall 
be punished by imprisonment for not less than one 
year, or by fine not exceeding four hundred dollars. 

BEWARE OF SHOOTING BEFORE YOU KNOW 
WHAT YOU ARE SHOOTING AT. 

Sections 3 and 4 of chapter 119 of the revised stat- 
utes : 

Section 3. Whoever, while on a hunting trip, or 
in the pursuit of wild game or game birds, negligent- 
ly or carelessly shoots and wounds, or kills any hu- 



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man being shall be punished by imprisonment not 
exceeding ten years, or by fine not exceeding one 
thousand dollars. 

Section 4. County attorneys and sheriffs, in their 
respective counties, shall promptly investigate any 
alleged violations of the preceding section, and 
prosecute every person accused thereof; for failure 
so to investigate and prosecute, each of said officers 
shall be punished by fine not exceeding one thou- 
sand dollars, and shall be removed from office. 

POISONING OF ANIMALS PROHIBITED. 

Ch. 30, R. S., sec. 20, as am. by ch. 134, P. L., 1909. 
Whoever for the purpose of killing wolves, foxes, 
dogs or other animals and not fior the destruction of 
insects or vermin in a building, leaves or deposits 
in any place any arsenic, corrosive sublimate, nux 
vomica, strychnine, prussic acid, or any other poison 
or poisionous substance, shall be fined not less than 
twenty nor more than fifty dollars, or be imprisoned 
not less than thirty nor more than sixty days. 

FISH AND GAME WARDENS, FIRE WARDENS. 

Chapter 108 of the public laws of 1891: 
Fish and game wardens are hereby made state fire 
wardens, and it shall be their duty while in and 
about the woods, to caution all sportsmen of the 
danger from fires in the woods, and to extinguish all 
fires left burning by anyone, if within their power; 
and to give notice to any and all parties interested 
when possible, of fires raging and beyond their 
Oontrol, to the end that the same may be controlled 
and extinguished. 

CAMP FIRES. 

Section 55 of chapter seven of the revised statutes. 
Whoever by himself, or by his servant, agent, or 



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guide or as the servant, agent or guide of any other 
person, shall build a camp, cooking, or other fire, or 
use an abandoned camp, cooking or other fire in or 
adjacent to any woods in this state, shall, before 
leaving such fire, totally extinguish the same, and 
upon failure to do so such person shall be punished 
by a fine of fifty dollars, provided that such fires 
built upon the sea beach in such situation that they 
cannot spread into forest wood or cultivated lands 
or meadows, shall not be construed as prohibited by 
this act. One-half of any fine imposed and collected 
under this section shall be paid to the complainant. 

Section 56, ch. 7, R. S. Camp fires must be totally 
extinguished before breaking camp, under penalty 
of not to exceed 1 month's imprisonment or $100 
fine, or both 

Chapter 28, Section 15, R. S. Whoever kindles a 
fire on land not his own without consent of the 
owner forfeits ten dollars; if such fire spreads and 
damages the property of others, he forfeits not less 
than ten, nor more than five hundred dollars; and, 
in either case, he shall stand committed until fine 
and cosits are paid, or he shall be imprisoned not 
more than three years. 

CHAPTER 52, P. L. 1909. 
AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE GOVERNOR TO IS- 
SUE HIS PROCLAMATION TO PREVENT THE 
USE OF FIREARMS IN THE FORESTS DURING 
A DANGEROUSLY DRY TIME. 

Section 1. Whenever during an open season for 
the hunting of any kind of game or game birds in 
this state, it shall appear to the governor that by 
reason of drought having in possession firearms in 
the forests is liable to cause forest fires, he may, by 
proclamation suspend the open season and make it 
a close season for such time as he may designate. 

Section 2. During the time which shall by such 
proclamation be made a close season, all provisions 
of law covering and relating to the close season 



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shall be in force, and a person violating a provision 
of the same shall be subject to the penalty therein 
prescribed. In case any person shall enter upon 
the wild lands of the state carrying or having in 
their possession any firearms, ior any person shall 
shoot during the close season fixed by proclamation 
of the governor, as provided in the preceding section 
any wild animal or bird for the hunting of which 
there is no close season otherwise provided by law, 
he shall be punished by a fine of one hundred dollars 
and costs. 

Section 3. Such proclamation shall be published 
in such newspapers of the state and posted in such 
places and in such manner as the governor may or- 
der in writing. A copy of such proclamation and 
order, shall be filed with the secretary of state. A 
like attested copy shall be furnished to the forest 
commissioner, who shall attend to the posting and 
publication of the proclamation. All expense thereof 
and all the expense of enforcing the provisions of the 
proclamation shall be paid by said commissioner, 
after allowance by the state auditor, from any funds 
in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated. 

Section 4. If after the issuing of the proclamation 
as provided in section one, by reason of rains or 
otherwise, the governor is satisfied that the occasion 
has passed for the issuance of the proclamation, he 
may annul it by another proclamation issued as pro- 
vided in this act for the issuance of the first procla- 
mation. 

CHAPTER 129, P. L., 1909. 
AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF FIREARMS 
FITTED WITH ANY DEVICE TO DEADEN THE 
SOUND OF EXPLOSION. 

Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to 
sell, offer for sale, use or have in his possession, any 
gun, pistol or other firearm, fitted or contrived with 
any device for deadening the sound of explosion. 
Whoever violates any of the provisions of this ar 
shall forfeit such firearm or firearms and the device 
or silencer, and shall further be subject to a fine not 
exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not 
exceeding sixty days, or to both fine and imprison- 
ment. Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, inland 
fish and game warden or deputy inland fish and 



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game warden shall have authority to seize any fire- 
arm or firearms and any device or silencer found in 
possession of any person in violation of this act, and 
on conviction of the party from whom such firearm 
or firearms are seized, such firearm or firearms, shall 
be sold, the proceeds to be paid to the state treas- 
urer, and the device or silencer shall be destroyed. 

Section 2. This act does not apply to military 
organizations authorized by law to bear arms, or to 
the national guard in the performance of its duty. 



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FEDERAL LAWS. 
The Lacey Act. 

For the information of shippers dealers and oth- 
ers we submit herewith Sections 2, 3 and 4 of the 
Lacey Act, so-called, originally approved by Congress 
in 1900, and amended in 1911: 

Sections 241 to 244 of the Criminal Code (35 Stat., 
1137), which are Sections 2, 3 and 4 of the Lacey 
Act, are as follows: 

"Section 241. The importation into tne United 
States, or any territory or District thereof, of the 
mongoose, the so-called "flying foxes" or fruit bats, 
the English sparrow, the starling, and such other 
birds and animals as the Secretary of Agriculture 
may from time to time declare to be injurious to the 
interests of agriculture or horticulture, is hereby 
prohibited; and all such birds and animals shall, 
upon arrival at any port of the United States, be 
destroyed or returned at the expense of the owner. 
No person shall import into the United Stales or 
into any Territory or District thereof, any foreign 
wild animal or bird, except under special permit 
from the Secretary of Agriculture: Provided, That 
nothing in this section shall restrict the importation 
of natural history specimens for museums or scienti- 
fic collections, or of certain cage birds, such as do- 
mesticated canaries, parrots, or such other bircts as 
the Secretary of Agriculture may designate. The 
Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to 
make regulations for carrying into effect the provi- 
sions of this section. 

"Section 242. It shall be unlawful for any per- 
son to deliver to any common carrier for transpor- 
tation, or for any common carrier to transport from 
any State, Territory, or District of the United States, 
to any other State, Territory, or District thereof, 
any foreign animals or birds, the importation of 
which, is prohibited, or the dead bodies or parts 
thereof of any wild animals or birds, where such ani- 
mals or birds have been killed or shipped in viola- 
tion of the laws of the State, Territory, or District 
in which the same were killed, or from which they 
were shipped: Provided, That nothing herein shall 
prevent the transportation of any dead birds or ani- 
mals killed during the season when the same may 



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be lawfully captured and the export of which is not 
prohibited by law in the State, Territory, or District 
in which the same are captured or killed: Provided 
further, That nothing herein shall prevent the impor- 
tation, transportation, or sale of birds or bird plu- 
mage manufactured from the feathers of barnyard 
fowls. 

"Section 243. All packages containing the dead 
bodies, or the plumage, or parts thereof, of game 
animals, or game or other wild birds, when shipped 
in interstate or foreign commerce, shall be plainly 
and clearly marked, so that the name and address 
of the shipper, and the nature of the contents, may 
be readily ascertained on an inspection of the out- 
side of such package. 

"Section 244. For each evasion or violation of 
any provision of the three sections last preceding, 
the shipper shall be fined not more than two hun- 
dred dollars ; the consignee knowingly receiving such 
articles so shipped and transported in violation of 
said sections shall be fined not more than two hun- 
dred dollars; and the carrier knowingly carrying 
or transporting the same in violation of said sec- 
tions shall be fined not more than two hundred 
dollars." 



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FEDERAL REGULATIONS ON MIGRATORY 
BIRDS. 

The Legislature of 1915 amended the game bird 
laws so that now, with the exception of the wood- 
cock law in the counties of Aroostook, Washington, 
Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset, Franklin 
and Oxford, the (State law conforms to the Federal 
Regulations on Migratory Birds. 

Inasmuch as under the Federal Regulations open 
season on woodcock does not begin until October 
1st, hunting of woodcock in the counties above 
named will be illegal until that date, notwithstanding 
open season in those counties under the State law 
begins on Sept. 15th. 

Furthermore, inasmuch as the season on these 
birds in these counties under the State law ends 
earlier than under the Federal Regulations, the State 
law governs the close of the season. 

Therefore, OPEN SEASON on woodcock in the 
counties of Aroostook, Washington, Hancock, Penob- 
scot, Piscataquis, Somerset, Franklin and Oxford, is 
from Oct. 1 to Nov. 14th inc., while in the eight 
remaining counties it is from Oct. 1 to Nov. 30th inc. 

(See State law on woodcock and other game birds, 
page 60.) 



INDEX 



PAGE 

Abbott pond, Sumner, Ox. Co., spl. law on 22 

Accidents while hunting' 91 

Advance baiting prohibited 37 

Alder brook, Franklin Co 14 

Alder iSt. and tribs., Frank. Co., spl. law on 17 

Aiford's lake, Knox Co., trios, closed 19 

Allagas'h lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 10 

Ambejejus lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing.... 9 

Androscoggin county deer law 49 

Androscoggin county, ice fishing. 1'aws in 6 

Androscoggin county, special fish laws in 12 

Androscoggin lake, Artdi and Ken. Cos., open 

to ice fishing Wednesday only 6 

Animals, wild, (except beaver) and birds destroy- 
ing property may be killed 57 

Annabessaco'ok lake, Ken. Co., closed to ice fish- 
ing 7 

Anonymous pond, Cumberland Co., closed to' ice 

fishing 7 

Annual report of Commissioners 46 

Arrest of violators *tt 

Aroostook Co., deer law 49 

Aroostook county, ice fishing laws in 6 

Aroostook county, special fish laws in 13 

Artificial culture of fish, sale and transportation 

of 46 

Artificial flies, minnows and insecits, use of in 

fishing 33 

Artificial lights, use of in hunting game and birds 

prohibited 52-62 

Artificial ponds, protection of 47 

Assuming falsely to be warden, commissioner or 

other official 91 

Attorneys, commissioners may empllioy in certain 

cases 45 

Auburn, Lake, And. Co., closed to ice fishing. . . . 6 

Auburn, Lake, And. Co., tribs 1 . closed 12 

Aziscohos lake, Ox. Co., fly fishing only, special 

limit on, tributaries closed 21 



"B" pond. Ox. Co.. and tribs., special law on 23 

Back Bay, Portland, above G. T. Ry. Bridge, 

unlawful to hunt birds in 68 

Baiting, advance, prohibited 37 

Bait fish, taking of 34-35 

Bar Harbor (Eden) certain lands in closed to 

hunting 66 



100 

PAGE 

Barker pond, Oornville, Som. Co., open to ice 

fishing - i 10 

Basin pond, Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing- 7 

Bass, black, closed season on 4-5-6 

Bass. Mack, length of which may be taken 12 

Bass, black, transportation of 35-36 

Beals (or Pickerel) pond, And. Co., tribs. closed 13 
Bean brook, Som. Co., a itr. to Parlin stream, 

closed 30 

Bears not protected 57 

Bear pond, in Waterford, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing 8 

Beaver brook, in Holeb, Som. Co., closed 27 

Beaver pond, in Denmark, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing 8 

Beaver ponds. Ox. Co., and tribs., special law on 23 

Beaver, protection of 5(5 

Belgrade lakes, law on tribs. to 18 

Belgrade lakes, length of fish which may be 

taken in and special' limit 12 

Belgrade stream, closed except from Snow pond 

to Belgrade Bridge 18 

Bennett ponds, The, Piscataquis Co.. open to 

ice fishing 10 

Bent's pond, Frank, and Ken. Cos., closed 7-16-19 

Berry pond, Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing, tribs. 

closed 7-18 

Bickford pond, in Porter, open to ice fishing 9 

Big Benson pond. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing.. 10 

Big Huston pond, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing.. 10 
Big Indian pond, St. Albans, Som. Co., open to 

ice fishing Tuesdays and Fridays and special 

limit on 10 

Big Turner pond. Som. Co., special limit on 27 

Big Wood pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 10 

Bigelow pond, Franklin Co., tribs. closed 15 

Bigelow, Mt. ponds, Frank. Co., special law on.. 18 

Bird pond, in Norway, open to ice fishing 8 

Birds, game, prohibited devices for hunting 62 

Birds, game, protection of 60-61-62 

Birds, game, resident must have license to take 

out of state 62 

Birds, game, sale and purchase of prohibited 61 

Birds. Comm'rs. may give permits to take for 

park purposes, &c 41-42-45 

Birds, wild (other than game) and nests and 

eggs protected 63 

Birds which are not protected at any time 63 

Birds, wild, and animals, (except beaver) found 

destroying property may be killed 57 

Bittern, (mud hen) not protected 63 

Black bass, length of which may be itaken 12 

Black bass, protection of under genl. laws 4 

Black bass, sale and purchase of prohibited 33 

Black bass, transportation of 35-36 

Black-breastod plover, protection of 60-61-62 

Black game protected 59 

Black pond, Fryeburg, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 9 

Blanchard pond, Frank Co., spl. law on 17 

Blue herons, not protected ! 63 



101 

PAGB 

Boats, lights on required 90 

Bob-oat, bounty on 58 

Bog stream and tribs., down to No. Pond St., 

Ken. and Fk. Cos., closed 18 

Bond, wardens 83 

Bond, when game or birds are seized 84 

Bog Pond in Fryeburg, Ox. Co., open to ice fish- 
ing 8 

Bonneg-heg pond, York Co., tribs. closed 31 

Bonneg-beg Pond, York county, closed to ice 

fishing 13 

Booker brook, Levant, Pen Co., closed 24 

Bottle Lake, Pen. Co., trlb. " to 24 

Bounty on bob-cat, loupcervier and Canada lynx 58 

Boyd's pond, York county, closed 31 

Bradley pond, ini LoveC'l, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing 8 

Branit, protection of 60-61-62 

Brassua lake, Som. Co., open to ice fishing and 

inlet closed 5-10-27 

Brewer pond, Han. and Penob. Cos., special limit 

for ice fishing 7-9 

Brooks, streams and rivers, general law on fish- 
ing in 4 

Bryant pond, in Woodstock, Ox. Co., triibis. closed, 

ispl. law on smelts 22-24 

Bubble pond, Ken. Co., tribs. closed 18 

Buker pond, Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing 7 

Bull moose, protection of 48 

Bungamuck pond, in Hantford, Ox. Co., open to 

ice fishing '. 9 

Burntland pond, Albany, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing 8 

Burnt Meadow pond, BrownfieOd, Ox. Co., open 

to ice fishing 8 

Buttermilk ponds, First and Fourth, Piscataquis 

Co., open to ice fishing 10 



C 

C pond, Ox. Co., fly fishing only, tribs. closed 21 

Calf pasture (pond) Siom. Co., spl. limit on 27 

Camp fires must not be left burning, &c 92 

Camping and kindling fires on wild lands, non- 
resident must have guide during certain 

months, while 72 

Camp Proprietors' Licenses 77 

Canaan lake, Knox and Waldo Co's., tribs. closed 19 
Canaan lake, use of firearms upon and around 

prohibited 66 

Canada lynx, bounty on 58 

Cancel, certificates, licenses or permits commis- 
sioners may 76-S7 

Capercailzie, protection of 59 

Caribou lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 9 

Cari'bou, may be taken for park purposes 42 

Caribou protection of 48 

Carpenter pond, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 10 



102 

PAGE 
Gary lake, Littleton, Aroos. Go., closed to ice 

fishing 6 

Caucomgomoc lake, Pise. Go., open to ice fishing 10 

Cedar lake, Pise. Co., open to dee fishing 9 

Center pond, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 10 

Certificates and licenses expire with the calendar 

year 83 

Certificates or licenses may be revoked 76-87 

Chamberlain lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing.. 9 

Charles pond, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 8 

Chemquassabamticook lake, Pise. Co., open to 

ice fishing 10 

Chesterville, Frank. Co., ice fishing law on waters 

in 7 

Che sun cook lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing.. 9 

Churchill' lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 10 

Cities, town® and plantations may elect I. F. & G. 

Wardens 89 

Citizens of Maine musit have license to take 5 

partridge, 10 ducks, and 10 woodcock outside 

the State 62 

Clay pond in Fryeburg, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing 8 

Clearwater pond 1 , Frank. Co., tribs. closed 14 

Clemons pond, The Two, in Hartford, Oxford 

county, open to ice fishing 9 

"Closed season" defined 3 

Closed season on fur bearing animals 57-58 

Closed season on game birds 60-98 

Closed season on gray squirrels 54 

Closed season on moose, caribou and deer 40-49-50-51 

Closed season on projected fish 4 

Closed season on rabbits 55 

Cobbosseecontee lake, Ken. Go., closed to ice 

fishing 7 

Cobbosseecontee lake, Ken. Co., tribs. to, closed 18 
Cochnewagon pond, Kennebec county, closed to 

ice fishing 7 

Cock-of-the-Woods, protection of 59 

Colcord pond, in Porter, Oxford County, open to 

ice fishing ' 9 

Cold stream pond, Penobscot county, closed to 

ice fishing 9 

Collisuons on inland waters, to prevent 90 

Commissioners may screen lakes or authorize 

same to be done 46 

Commissioners may take birds, fish and game for 

scientific, park and breeding purposes 41-42 

Commissioners of I. F. & G. powers and duties of 40-46 

Concord. Little pond. Ox. Co., spl. law on 22 

Constables are I. F. & G. wardens 84 

Coos brook, portion of, Frank. Co., closed. 14 

Gorinna stream, itr. to Lake Sebasticook, spl 

law on 25 

Corporations, service of warrants on 87 

County attorneys must prosecute violations of 

inland fish and game laws 88 

Courts, jurisdiction of 86 

Courts must report prosecutions 88 

Cow moose, protection of 48 



103 

PAGE 
Cow pond, Frank. Co., fly fishing only and spl. 

limit on ,_^ 16 

Crocker pond, in Albany, Oxford Co., open to 

ice fishing 8 

Crocker pond, Som. Co., spl. limit on 29 

Crooked river, Cumlb. Co 14 

Crops, destruction of by deer 51 

Cross Island, Wash. Co., deer pro. on 50 

Crows, not protected 63 

Crystal lake, Knox county, tribs. closed 19 

Crystal lake, Knox county, closed to ice fishing 8 

Cumberland county deer law 49 

Cumberland county ice fishing laws in 6 

Cumiberland county special fish laws in 14 

Cupsuptic lake, stream and tribs., spl. laws on.. 5-20 

Curlew protected 61 

Cushman pond, Lovell, Ox. Co., otpen to ice fish- 
ing » . 9 

Cusk, genl. law on 35 

D 

Daily limit on land-locked salmon, itrout, togue, 

white perch and black bass under general law 5-11 

Daily limit on protected game birds 61 

Damage to crops by deer 51 

Dan Charles pond, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing.... 9 

David pond, Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing 7 

Davis pond, Peniob. Co., closed to ice fishing 9 

Davis ponds, The Four, Guilford and Williman- 

tic Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 10 

Davis stream and it rib. Pise. Co 25 

DaVistown, special law on waters in 15 

Dead Cambridge river, Upton, Ox. Co., fly fishing 

only in portion of, tribs. closed 20-21 

Dead River pond, (See Saddleback Lake) 

Dead stream pond, 'Soni. Co., open to ice fishing.. 10 
Dealers in skins of deer and heads must be 

licensed 79 

Dealers in skins of fur bearing animals must be 

•licensed 79 

Debsconeag lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing... 9 
Deer cannot be sold or given away >to be taken 

out of the (State 52 

Deer, close season on in the several counties also 

on Mt. Desert Island and other islands, etc.... 49-51 

Deer damaging growing crops may be killed 51 

Deer hunting prohibitted in Perkins, Sagadahoc 

Co 51 

Deer Isle, Han. Co., deer hunting prohibited in.. 50 
Deer may be taken for park purposes, etc., under 

permit 42-45 

Deer must not be enticed with salt 52 

Deer, number a lumlber camp can have in one 

season 55 

Deer-skin dealers must be licensed 79 

Deer, .transportation of by residents also under 

tag without accompanying same 53 

Deer, transportation of by non-residents under 

hunting license tag .* 70-71 

Deputy inland fish and game wardens, appoint- 
ment and duties of 84 



104 

PAGE 

Deputy Sheriffs are I. F. & G. Wardens 84 

Dill brook, Pen. Co., closed 24 

Dip nets &4 

Disposition of seized game, birds and fish 84 

Dixon brook, York Co., closed 31 

Dodge pond, Frank. Co., fly fishing only in, and 

spl. limit on 16 

Dog, used for or found chasing moose, caribou or 

deer may be killed 52 

Dogs, use of prohibited in hunting moose and 

deer 52 

Dole pond, York Co., closed 31 

Donham brook, trib. to Marshall pond, in Oxford 

Co., spl. law on part of 19 

Douglass pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 10 

Drury pond, in Temple, Frank. Co., open to ice 

fishing certain days 7 

Duck lake, Pen. Co., tribs. to 24 

Duck Trap stream, and tribs., Waldo Co., spl. 

law on 30 

Ducks, closed season on, daily limit, transporta- 
tion of 60-61-62 

Ducks, transportation out of State by resident 

under license 62 

Duties of Commissioners 40 

Dutton pond, Frank. Co., spl. law on, tribs. and 

portion of outlet closed 14-17 

Duty of County Attorneys 88 

Dyer's and Little Dyer's ponds, Dincoln county, 

closed to ice fishing 8 

Dynamite, use of for destroying fish prohibited.. 33 

B 

Eagle lake, Hancock county, tribs. closed 18 

Eagle lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 10 

East pond, Ken. Co , (Belgrade Chain) closed to 

ice fishing, tribs. closed 7-18 

Ebemee pond, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 10 

Echo lake, Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing 7 

Eden, town of, certain lands in closed to hunting 6«J 
Eel, license must be secured before taking with 

traps or nets 35 

Eggs of wild birds protected 63 

Ellis pond, Ken. Co., (of Belgrade Chain) closed 

to ice fishing, tribs. closed 7-18 

ElMs pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing but 

special law on portion of 10-27 

Ellis river, Oxford county, and tribs., special 

law on 20 

Eimbden pond (Great) Som. Co.. special ice fish- 
ing laws on 10 

English sparrows, not protected 63 

Explanations 3 

Explosives use of in taking fish prohibited 33 

F 

Fahi pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing- 10 

Falsely assuming to be a Commissioner, warden 
or other official 91 



105 

PAGE 

Farrington pond, in Lovell, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing 8 

Federal bird laws 96-97-98 

Fifteen Mile stream and tribs., Ken. <& Waldo 

Cos., closed 19-30 

Fines for illegal 'taking or killing of moose, 

caribou and deer, game birds, fish, etc 

48-49-50-55-56-57-61-32 

Fines and penalties, collection and disposition of 48-86 
Firearms, Governor may prohibit use of in dry 

season 93 

Fires, camp, must be wholly extinguished 92 

Fires, Kindle, non-residents who, must have 

guide when on wild lands hunting or fishing.. 72 

Fires ibuilt on land of another 93 

First Buttermilk pond, Pise. Co., open to ice 

fishing 10 

Fish and Game Wardens are fire wardens 92 

Fish, closed season on under general law 4 

Fish, daily limit and number of pounds Which 

may be transported 5-11-36-36 

Fisih Hatcheries, how established 47-48 

Fish may be taken and transported under permit 

of Commissioners, for scientific purposes 41 

Fish, sale and purchase of certain, prohibited. ... 33 

Fish, spawn, use of in fishing, prohibited 33 

Fish, transportation of under tag 36 

Fish, transportation of when accompanied by 

owner 35-36 

Fish wardens, appointed by towns and cities... 89 

Fishing for gain or profit prohibited 38 

Fish ways 43 

Fis'h pond, Black Brook T., Som. Co., special law 

on 28 

Fis'h pond, Holeb, special limit on 28 

Fish pond, Moxie Gore, Som. Co., fly fishing only 28 

Five Kezars, The, Oxford Co., open to ice fishing 8 

Flying pond, Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing 7 

Flying pond, Ken. Co., tribs. Closed, except por- 
tion of Sucker brook 18 

Four ponds, Frank, Co., tribs. closed 14 

Fowler pond, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 8 

Foxes, digging out of dens prohibited and close 

time on 57-58 

Franklin County Deer Law 49 

Franklin Co., ice fishing laws in 7 

Franklin Co.', special fish laws in 14-18 

Fresh pond, North Haven, closed 'to- fishing 8-19 

Frogs, taking of in certain Aroostook county 

waters restricted to domestic use in family of 

person taking same 13 

Fur bearing animals, protection of 57-58 

Fur bearing animals, dealers in skins of, must 

be licenced 80 



Gaff, use of prohibited 33 

Game and birds, live, may be taken for park pur- 
poses 42 

Game birds, daily limit on 61 



106 

PAGE 

Game birds defined 63 

Game birds, protection and transportation of.... 60-61-62 

Game birds, sale and purchase of prohibited 61 

Game birds, transportation of out of State by 

non-resident 69-71 

Game bird®, transportation of out of State by 

resident, under special tag 62 

Game, Fisih and Birds, Commissioners may take 

and give permits tio fake for scientific and park 

purposes. &c 41-42-45 

Game, transportation out of State by resident 

citizens 53 

Game wardens, I. F & G., appointment and 

duties of 83-84 

Game wardens are fire wardens 92 

Gammon pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing ID 

Garland pond, Ox. Co., tribs. closed 20 

Geese, protection of 60-61-62 

General law on protected fish 4-5-6 

George, Lake, Som. Co., open to ice fishing Sat- 
urdays, only 10 

George. Lake, Som. Co., tribs. closed 27 

Getchell brook, Pen. Co., closed 24 

Gilman pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 10 

Golden plover, pro. of 60-61-62 

Goodwin's brook, Som. Co 27 

Governor may prohibit taking of firearms into 

woods in a dry season 93 

Grand Lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 10 

Grand Lake and Grand Lake Stream, Wash Co., 

special law on 30 

Grandeur pond, Denmark, Oxford Co., open to 

ice fishing 8 

Grapnel, use of in fishing, prohibited 38 

Gray squirrel 1 , protection of 54 

Great brook, York Co., closed 31 

Great Embden pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 

Saturdays 10 

Great Embden pond, Som. Co., tribs. closed 27 

Great Moose Lake, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 10 
Great Moose lake, Som Co., tribs. closed, except 

Main Stream, &c. , &c 27 

Great Pond. Ken. Co., (of Belgrade chain) closed 

to ice fishing— 7, tribs, closed 18 

Grindstone pond, Frank. Co., spl. limit on 17 

Guides must be licensed 74 

Guides non-residents must employ in certain cases 72 
Gull pond, Frank Co., fly fishing only in, and 

spl. limit on 16 

H 

Haley pond, Frank. Co., fly fishing only and spl. 

limit on 16 

Haley pond, Fryeburg, Ox. Co., open 'to ice fishing 8 

Half Moon Pond, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing...'... 9 

Hancock Co. deer law 49 

Hancock Co., ice fishing laws in 7 

Hancock Co., special fishing laws in 18 

Hares (or rabbits) protection of , . . 55 



107 

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Harlow pond, Parkman, Pise. Co., open to ice 

fishing for pickerel 10 

Hatcheries, fish, how established 47-48 

Hawks, not protected 63 

Ha yd era lake, Som. Co., open to ice fishing- on 

Saturdays only 10 

Haydera Jake, Som. Co., trihs. closed 27 

Hebron Lake, Morason, Pise. Co., open to ice fish- 
ing 10 

Helen pond, Pierce pond and Black Brook T., 

Som. Co., closed 28 

Heron, blue, not protected 63 

Higgins stream, Som. Co., open only below first 

dam 27 

High pond, Pierce pond T., Som. Co. fly fishing 

only, spl. Idmit and closed during Sept 28 

Hogan pond, in Oxford, Ox. Co., opera to ice fish- 
ing 8 

HoJland brook. Frank. Co., portion of, closed.... 14 
Hooper pond, Greene, And. Co., spl. law on, 'tribs. 

closed 6-13 

Hornpouts, license must ibe procured before tak- 
ing with nets 35 

Horseshoe pond, Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing. . 7 
Horseshoe pond', Stoneham, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing 8 

Horseshoe pond, Lovelt, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing 9 

Horseshoe pond, W. Bowdo.n College T., Pise. Co., 

spl. law on 26 

Horseshoe pond, Siom. Co., open to ice fishing.... 10 

Hungarian partridge protected 59 

Hunter's and trapper's license 71 

Hunting accidents 91 

Hunting licenses 68 

Hunting prohihiited on Kineo point 65 

Huston Big, pond, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing.. 10 



Ice fishing under general law 5-6-11-12 

Identification of game, when transported by resi- 
dents 53 

Indian pond, Greenwood, Ox. Co., trihs. closed.. .19 

Insectivorous birds, nests and eggs protected.... 63 
Introduction of certain fish, hirds and 'animals, 

prohibited except under permit 37-72 

Island pond and tribs., Ox. and Cum'b. Cos., closed 7-14 

Isle a.u Haut, Knox Co., deer protected in 50 



J 

Jack lights, use of in hunting deer, moose and 

caribou, prohibited 52 

Jack lights, possession of illegal when 34 

Jackson pond, Concord, Som. Co., closed 27 

Jacksraipe, protection of 60 

Jim Brook, Franklin Co., spl. law on 17 

Jimmy pond, in Litchfield, Ken. Co., tribs. closed 18 

Joe Mary Lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing. .. . 9 



108 

PAGE 

Johnson brook, Som. Co., portion of closed 29 

Johnson Mountain Township, Som. Co., spl. law 

on waters in 29 

Judkins brook, York Co., closed 31 

Jurisdiction of Courts 86 

Jurisdiction of Inland Fish and Game Commission 3-40 



K 

Kamankeag brook, tr. to Kennebago stream, 

closed 14 

Kedar brook, Ox. Co., closed except to smelt and 

sucker fishing- 24 

Kennebago Lake, spl. law on 15 

Kennebago Lake, (Little) spl. laws on 15 

Kennebago Stream (Little) spl. laws on 15-16 

Kennebago stream, spl. law on 15 

Kennebec county, deer law in 49 

Kennebec county, ice fishing laws in 7 

Kennebec county, special fish laws in 18 

Kennebec river, in Somerset Co., open to ice fish- 
ing 10 

Keyes pond, Sweden, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 9 

Kezar river, Ox. Co., tribs. closed 28 

Kezars, The Five, Ox. Co., open to -ice fishing.... 8 

Kezar Lake, spl. ice fishing law, and tribs. closed 9-23 

Kineo point, Piscat. Co., hunting on prohibited.. 65 

Kingfishers not protected 63 

Kingman Brook. Ox. Co., closed except to smelt 

and sucker fishing 24 

Kingsbury pond, Som. and Pise. Cos., open to ice 

fishing 10 

Kneeland pond, in Alibany, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing 8 

Knox Co. , deer law in 49 

Knox Co., ice fishing laws in 8 

Knox Co., special fish laws in 19 

Kokadjo river, No. inlet, Pise. Co 26 



Labrador pond in Sumner, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing 9 

Lakes and ponds, gen'l law on fishing in 4 

Lake Auburn. And. Co., closed to ice fishing 6 

Lake Auburn, tribs. closed 12 

Lakp George. Som. Co., open to ice fishing — Sat- 
urdays only 10 

Lake George, Som. Co., tribs. closed 27 

Lake Kezar, Ox. Co., spl. ice fishing law on 9 

Lake Mat-ana cook. Ken. Co.. closed to ice fishing 

and tribs. c'nsed 7-18 

Lake Hebron, Monson, Pise. Co., open to ice fish. 10 
Lake Pennesseewassee, and Little Pennesseewas- 

see. Ox. Co. tribs. closed 20 

Lambert Lake. Wash. Co., tribs. closed 30 

Landlocked salmon, daily limit 5 

Landlocked salmon, length of which may be 

caught 12 

Landlocked salmon, protection of under gen'l law 4-5-6 



109 

PAGE 

Landlocked salmon, sale and purchase of pro- 
hibited 33 

Landlocked salmon, transportation of 35-36 

Land may be taken for fish hatcheries 47-48 

Lang pond, Som. Co., tribs. closed 27 

Lang stream and its tribs.. Som. Co., closed 27 

Large Greenwood pond, Pise. Co., open to ice 

fishing 10 

Launches — and all boats except sail or row boats 
must not be used in hunting ducks or water 

fowl in inland waters 64 

Length of fish which may be taken 12 

Lermond's pond, Knox Co., tribs. closed 19 

Licenses: 

Camp proprietors 77 

Dealers in deer skins and heads 79 

Dealers in skins of fur-bearing animals. ... 80 

Guides 74 

Hunters and trappers 77 

Marketmen 81 

May be cancelled 87 

Non-resident hunters 68 

Taxidermists 82 

To ship fish without accompanying same.. 36 
To ship game and birds without accompany- 
ing same 53-54-62 

To (for a non-resident) ship 1 pair game 

birds to his home 71 

To (for a resident) take buds out of State.. 62 
To take eels, suckers, hornpouts and yellow 

perch with trap 35 

Unnaturalized, foreign -born, resident hunt- 73 

ing 73 

When all expire 83 

Lights required on boats 90 

Limit daily on game birds 61 

Limit, daily on protected fish 5-11 

Lincoln county, deer law in 49 

Lincoln county, ice fishing law in 8 

Lines, number of which may be used 32 

Little Benson pond. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 10 
Little Concord pond, Woodstock, Ox. Co., spl. law 

on 22 

Little Dyer's pond, Lincoln Co., closed to ice 

fishing 8 

Little Fish pond, Holeb, Som. Co., spl. limit on.. 28 
Little Labrador ponid, in Strainer, Ox. Co., open 

to ice fishing 9 

Little MagalCoway river and certain tribs., Ox. 
Co., fly fishing only and spl. limit on portion 

of, &c 21 

Little Fennessewassee, tribs. closed 20 

Little Pond, Denmark, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 8 
Little Pond. Belgrade, Ken. Co., CLOSED TO 

ALL PISHING 7 

Little Pond, (of Belgrade Chain) Ken. Co., tribs. 

closed 18 

Little Pond, Sweden, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 9 
Little Purgatory pond, Ken. Co., closed to ice 

fishing 7 

Little river, Old Orchard, York county, spl. law 

on perch in 31 



110 

PAGE 
Litt'.e Sebago Lake, Cumb. Co., closed to ice fish- 
ing- % . 6 

Little Turner pond, Som. Co., spl. limit on 27 

Littlefield pond, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing.... 10 

Littlefield pond, York Co., closed to ice fishing... 11 

Live bait 34 

Live fish and game, transportation of beyond 

limits of State 45 

Lobster lake, Pise. Co., oipen to ice fishing 9 

Long pond, Livermore. And. Co.. tribs. closed.... 13 

Long pond, Cumb. Co., special law on 4 

Long pond, Denmark, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 8 

Long pond, Prank Co., tribs. closed 14 

Long pond, in Porter, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 9 
Long pond. Ken. Co., (of Belgrade chain) closed 

to ice fishing, tribs. closed 7-18 

Long pond, Ox. Co., spl. law on 21 

Long Pond PI., Som. Co., spl. law on waters in.. 29 

Long Pond stream, Pise. Co., closed 25 

Long Pond stream, a t'rib. to closed 25 

Long pond, "Waterford, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 8 

Long pond, York Co., closed to ice fishing 11 

Loons not protected 63 

Loon lake. Rangeiey and Dallas PI., Frank Co., 

fly fishing only and spl. limit on 16 

Loupcervier, ibounty on 58 

Lovejoy pond. Ken. Co., spl. ice fishing law and 

spl. limit on 8-19 

Loveweil's pond, Fryeburg, Oxford Co., open to 

ice fishing 8 

Lowell brook. Pen. Co., closed 24 

Lower Cold Stream pond, Som. Co., open to ice 

fishing 10 

Lower Enchanted T., Som. Co., spl. law on waters 

in * 29 

Lower Kezar pond, Ox. Co., spl. ice fishing law 

on 9 

Lower Kimball pond, Fryeburg, Ox. Co., open to 

ice fishing 8 

Lower "Wilson pond. Pise. Co.. tribs. closed 26 

Lumber Camp cannot use more than 6 deer in one 

season 55 

Lumbert lake, Pen. Co., tribs. to closed 24 

Lynx, Canada, bounty on 58 



M 

Magalloway river, Ox. Co.. certain tribs. closed. 

fly fishing only and spl. limit on portion of . . . . 21 

Main stream. Som. Co., open to fishing 27 

Mapleton Branch of Presque Isle stream, Aroos- 
took Co. , law on 13 

Maranacook lake. Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing 7 

tribs. closed 18 

Marketmeh and provision dealer's license to sell 

deer meat 82 

Marshall pond, Ox. Co., spl. law on tribs 19 

Martin pond (or Long Pond) Som. Co., open to 

ice fishing 10 

Massachusetts Gore, spl. law on waters in 15 



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PAGE 

MayfieM pond, Som. Co., open ito ice fishing- 10 

McGraiw pond, Ken. Co., (of Belgrade chain) 

closed to ice fishing-, trios, to closed 7-18 

Mclntire brook, York Co., cloised 31 

McKenney pond 1 . HOleb, Som. Co.. spl. limit on.. 27 
McWain pond, Waterford, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing 3 

Meadow toirook and tribs., in Stockton Springs 

and Prospect. Waldo Co 30 

Meguntieook lake, use of firearms prohibited upon 

and around 66 

Messabesic pond, York Co., closed to ice fishing. . 11 
Mataliuc brook, trib. to Upper Richardson lake 

closed, spl. law at mouth of 20 

Middle Branch pond, York Co., closed to ice 

fishing 11 

Mi'HI brook, tr. to Upper Richard'son lake, closed 20 

Mill waste must noit be thrown into certain waters 38 

Millinockat lake, Pise. Co., open to ioe fishing 10 

Mink (and other animals and birds) may be de- 
stroyed by Commrs. when 42 

Minnows, general law on 34-35 

Mirror lake. Ken. and Frank Cos., closed 18 

Misery stream, Som. county, closed 27 

Moose pondi, Denmark, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 8 

Moose pond, Paris, Oxford Co., open to ice fishing 8 
Moose pond, Waterford, Oxford Co., open to> ice 

fishing 8 

Moose protected until 1919 48 

Moose river, Som. Co., spl. law on portion of.... 5 
Moosehead lake. Som. and Pise. Cos. open to ice 

fishing 9-10 

Moosehead lake, spl. Paw regarding transporta- 

tiom of 10 lbs. of trout once in ten days 37 

Moosehead lake, tribs. to closed, except Moose 

river 25 

Mooseluomeguntic lake, spl. law on and tribs 

closed 5-14-15-20 

Morrill pond, Soim. Co., open to ice fishing 10 

Mosquito stream, Som. Co., closed 27 

Motor boats cannot be used in hunting game birds 

in intend waters or in certain waters on coast 64 

Motor boats must be muffled 89 

Mount Bige'IOw ponds. Frank. Co., spl. restrictions 

on 18 

Mount Desert Island, protection of deer on 49 

Mousam pond, York Co., closed to ice fishing 11 

Miud Hen (.bit tern) not protected 63 

Mud pond. Ken. and Fk. Cos., closed 18 

Mud Pond, Paris, Ox. CO.. open to ice fishing. ... 8 
Mud pond, Ken. and Sagadahoc counties closed 

to ice fisbing 7 

Mud Pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 10 

Mud Pond. Frank. Co.. tribs. to, closed 14 

Mufflers required 1 on motor boats in certain cases 89 

Munsungun lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing. . 10 

Muskrat, protection of 57 

Muskrats, taking of in Lower Kezar pond and 

adjacent waiters prohibited 58 



112 

N 

pagf: 

Nahmakanta lake, Pise. Co., open to ice Ashing. . 9 

Narnaguagus lake, Han. Co., closed to ice fishing- 7 

Narrows pond. Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing 7 

Nests of wild birds protected 63 

Nets cannot be used in taking birds 62 

Net. (other than dip net) possession of illegal 

when 34 

Night hunting prohibited 54 

Noiseless firearms, use of prohibited 94 

Non-resident guides, licensing of 76 

Non-residenit hunting licenses 

Non-residents must employ guides in certain cases 72 

Non-residents, transportation of game by 69-70-71 

North Branch brook and tribs., Cumb. Co., closed 14 
North Branch of Presque Tsle Stream, Aroos. Co. 13 
No. Br. Dead River, Frank. Co., spl. law on por- 
tion of 17 

North Pond, Frank. Co., tribs. closed 14 

North Pond, Woodstock, Ox. Co., open to ice fish- 
ing 9 

North Pond, Ox. Co., tribs cUosed 19 

North Pond, Ken. Co., (of Belgrade Chain) closed 

to ice fishing, tribs. closed 7-18 

North Pond, Norway, open to ice fishing 

North Twin lake, Pise. Co.. open to ice fishing. . 9 

Nonton oond, Knox Co., tribs. closed 19 

Noyes pond, Hanc. Co., closed to ice fishing 7 

Number of game birds which may be taken, had 

in possession or transported in one day 61 

Number of lines which may be used 32 

Number One Brook and Number Two Brook. 
Dowelltown, Frank. Co., closed above railroad 

track 18 



O 

Oaks pond. Som. Co.. open to ice fishing in 

Officers may arrest without warrant 85 

"Open season" defined 3 

Otter pond, Bridgton, Cumb. Co.. closed 7-14 

Overset pond. Ox. Co.. spl. limit on 22 

Owls, not protected 63 

Ox Bow pond, Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing.... 7 

Oxford County deer law 49 

Oxford County ice fishing laws in 8 

Oxford County, special fish Taws in 19 



Palmer pond. Som. Co., open to ice fishing 10 

Panther pond. Cumb. Co.. closed to ice fishing... 7 

Pappose Pond. Waterford. open to ice fishing.... 8 
Park purposes, game and birds may be taken 

for when 42 

Parker pond, Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing 7 

Parker pond, Ken. Co., tribs. closed 18 

Parkis pond, Frank, and Ken. Cos., closed 18 



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PAGE 

Parlin pond, Som. Co.. tribs. closed 27 

Parlin Pond T., Som. Co., spl. law on waters in.. 29 

Parliin stream, spl. law on portion of 29 

Parmachenee lake, Ox. Co., fly fishing only, tribs. 

closed 21 

Participant in violation must testify when 8S 

Partridge, Hungarian, protected 59 

Partridge (Ruffed Grouse) protection of and daily 

limit on, and transportation of 60 

Partridge, transportation of out of State by citi- 
zens of Maine under license tag 62 

Passadumkeag river (stream) Pen. and Han. Cos., 

closed to ice fishing 8 

Pattee's pond, Ken. Co., tr. closed IS 

Peimadumcook lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 9 
Penalties and fines how recovered and disposition 

of 48 

Penalty for destroying notices posted by Com- 
missioners 41 

Penality for injuring or destroying screen 46 

Penalty for falsely assuming tio be an officer.... 91 
Penalty for illegal killing of fish, game, birds and 

fur bearing animal's 32-49-52-57-59-61-63 

Penalty for violating Rules and Regulations of 

Com mission ens 41 

Pennessewassee Lake, Ox. Co., tribs. closed 20 

spl. law on outlet 23 

Pennessewassee, Little, Ox. Co. tribs. closed 20 

Penobscot Co. deer law 49 

Penobscot Co., ice fishing laws in 19 

Penobscot Co.. special fishing lawis in 24 

Pepper pond, Pise. Co.. open to ice fishing 10 

Perch, white, dai>y liimit on, and length of which 

may be caught 5-12 

Perch, white, protection of under genl. ilaw 4-5-6 

Perch, white, sale and purchase of 33 

Perch, white, transportation of 35-36 

Perkins, Sag. Co., deer protected in 5 1 

Permits 1 may be revoked when 87 

Permits to take game and birds for park, exhi- 
bition, scientific and advertising purposes, &c. 41-42-45 
Pheasant (all species except ruffed grouse) pro- 
tected 59 

Pickerel, genl. ice fishing law on 5-6 

Pickerel pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 10 

Pickerel (or Beals) pond, Turner, And. Co., tribs. 

closed 13 

Pickerel pond, in Denmark, Ox. Co., tribs. closed 20 

Piscataquis County deer law 49 

Pise. Co., ice fishing laws in D 

Pise. Co., spl. fish laws in 25 

Plantations may e'ect Inland Fish and Game 

wardens when S9 

Pleasant pond, Fryeburg, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing 8 

Pleasant pond, Ken. and Sag. Cos., closed to ice 

fishing 7 

Pleasant pond, in Sumner, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing 9 

Pleasant pond', in Turner, And: Co., closed to ice 

fishing fi 

Plover, protection of, daily limit, &c 60 



114 

PAGE 
Plummer brook, Ox. Co., closed except to smelt 

and sucker fishing- 23 

Poscassett lake. Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing.. 7 

Poisoning of animals, prohibited 92 

Poisonous substance, fish must not be killed with 33 

Police officers are wardens 84 

Fond-in-the-River, Ox. Co., spl. law on 20 

Ponds and lakes, genl. law on fishing in 4 

Presque Isle Stream and certain tribs. to Aroos. 

Co., closed 13 

Prohibited methods of fishing 33 

Proctor pond, Albany and Stonebam, Ox. Co., 

open to ice fishing 8 

Prosecutions must be reported 88 

Prout's Neck. Cumb. Co., hunting prohibited on 67 

Puffer ponds. Penob. Co., closed to ice fishing.. 9 

Purchase and sale of certain fish prohibited 33 

Purgatory pond, and Little Purgatory pond. Ken. 

Co., closed to ice fishing 7 

Q 

Quimby pond, Frank. Co., fly fishing only, and 

spl. limit on 16 

R 

Rabbits (or hares) protection of 55 

Ragged lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 10 

Rangeley lake special Haw on 5 

Rangeley lake, tribs. to closed 14 

RangeOey stream, spl. law on portion of 15 

Rapid river, spl. law on 20 

Rattlesnake pond, in Brownfield. Ox. Co., (East- 
erly of M. C. R. R.) open to ice fishiing 9 

Rattlesnake pond, Ox. Co.. tribs. closed 20 

Report, annual of Commissioners 46 

Reports of prosecutions must be made 8S 

Resident can take but one deer out of State in 

one season 53 

President must buy tag in order to take game birds 

out of State 62 

Resident must identify shipment of deer unless 

tagged with special shipping tags 53 

Richardson lake, special law on 5 

Richardson ponds, E. and W., Ox. Co., and tribs. 

spl. laws on 23 

Riparian proprietors 46 

Rivers, general law on fishing in 4 

Roach river (see Kokadjo) 

Ross lake, Littleton, Aroos. Co., closed to ice 

fishing 6 

Round M<t. Lake, Frank. Co.. spl. law on 17 

Round pond, Frank. Co., fly fishing only and spl. 

limit on 16 

Round pond, in Greenwood, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing 9 

Round pond, in Greenwood, Ox. Co., tribs. closed 19 

Round pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 10 



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PAGE 

Round pond, Li verm ore, And. Co., tribs. closed.. 13 

Rowell pond, Sam. Co., open to ice fishing 10 

Roxbury pond, in Roxbury, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing - 8 

Ruffed Grouse, (partridge) protection of, daily 

limit, and transportation of 60-62 

Rules and Regulations may be adopted by Com- 
missioners when 40-41 

Rum pond, Greenville, Pise. Co., spl. law on 25 

S 

Sabbathday Lake, Cumb. Co., closed to ice fishing 6 
Saddleback lake, (or Dead River pond) Frank. 

Co., spl. law on 17 

Saddleback Mountain ponds, Frank. >Oo., fly fish- 
ing only and spl. limit on 16 

Sagadahoc Co., deer law in 49 

Sagadahoc Co., ice fishing law in 10 

and spl. law on Swan Island 26 

Sale and purchase of certain fish prohibited. ... S3 

Sale of seized fish, game and birds 84 

Salt must not be used to entice deer 53 

Sand pond, Denmark, Ox. Co., open to ice fish. 8 

Sand pond, Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing 7 

Sandy pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 10 

Sandy river pond, Frank. Co., tribs. closed 14 

Sawdust laws 3S-40 

Schoodic lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 9 

Scotch Island, Wash. Co., deer protected on 50 

Screening of lakes, Commissioners may authorize 46 
Search and seizure of fish, game and birds and 

protected wild animals 85 

Search warrants 85 

Sebago Lake, Little, Cumib. Co., closed to ice 

fishing 6 

Sebago lake, spl. law on 4 

Sebago lake, tribs. to, closed (except spl. law on 

Songo and Crooked rivers) 14 

Sebasticook lake, Pen. Co., spl. perch Law on and 

spl. law on certain tribs 24-25 

Sebasticook river, Pen. Co 24 

Sebec lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 9 

Sebec Hake, trib. to 25 

Seboeis lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fisihing 9 

Second lake, Pise' Co., open to ice fishing 10 

Seine, use of in fishing prohibited 33 

Seized game, birds and fish, disposition of 84-85 

Seizure of birds, fish and game and protected 

Wild animals 84 

Seizures must be repoi'ted 88 

Service of warrants on corporations 87 

Set lines, use of prohibited, except when fishing 

through ice 33 

Seven Ponds Township, spl. law on waters in 15 

Shagg pond, Ox. Co., spl. l'aw on and tribs. closed 22 

Shaw lake, Pen. Co., trib. to 24 

Shell pond, Stow, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 9 

Sheriffs and deputies are wardens 84 

Ship Pond stream, Pise. Co., and tribs 25 

Shore birds, protection of 61 



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Sibley pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 10 

Silencers on firearms cannot be used 94 

Simpson pond, Roque Bluffs, Wash. Co., spl. law 

on • 10-31 

Slab City pond, Lovell, Ox. Co., open to 'ice fishing 8 
Sleepy Hollow brook, and tribs., Waldo Co., spl. 

law on 30 

Smelts, gen. law regarding taking 31-35 

Smith pond, Som. Co.. open to ice fishing 10 

Snares, use of in hunting prohibited 52-62 

Snipe, protection of, daily limit, &c 60-61-C2 

Snow pond, Ken. Co., (of Belgrade Cha'in) closed 
to ice fishing, tribs. to except portion of Bel- 
garde Stream, closed 7-18 

Somerset County, deer lav/ 4!» 

Somerset County, ice fishing laws in 10 

Somerset County, spl. fishing laws in 27 

Song Birds provected 63 

Songo pond, in Albany, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 8 

Songo pond, Ox. Co.. tribs. to closed 20 

Songo river, Cumb. Co. 14 

South Branch pond, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 10 

South pond, in Greenwood, Ox. Co.. tiribs. closed 19 

South Twin lake, Pise. Co.. open to ice fishing.. 9 

Sparrows. English, not protected 63 

Spawn, fish, use of prohibited for bait 33 

Spear, use of in fishing prohibited when 33 

Spear possession of unlawful when 34 

Sporting camps must be licensed 77 

Squa Pan lake, Aroos. Co., Inlet .Stream closed 

and part of E. Br. of said inlet 13 

Square pond, York Co.. closed to ice fishing 11 

Squirrels, gray, protection of 54 

Stafford pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 10 

Staples pond, and its tribs., Frank. Co., closed.. 14 

Starbird pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 10 

Stearns pond, Sweden, Ox. Co.. open to ice fishing 9 

Stetson town, Fk. Co., spl. law on waters in.... 15 

Stone lake, Upper, Stoneham, open to ice fishing. 8 

Stonington, Hancock Co., deer protected in 50 

Stratton brook and triltos., Fk. Co., spl. law on.... IS 

Streams, general law on fishing in 4 

Stupefying or poisonous substances must not be 

used in taking fish 33 

Sucker brook, Ken. Co 18 

Suckers, license must be procured before taking 

with trap or nets 35 

Sunday is closed time on all wild birds and Wild 

animals 68 

Sunkhaze steam and tribs. Pen. and Han. Cos., 

spl. law on '. 18-25 

Swan Isiland, Sag. Co., fishing and hunting on por- 
tion of prohibited 26-64 

T 

Tag for transporting certain fish, game and birds 

without accompanying same 53 

Tag, resident may purchase to take game birds 

out of State 62 

Taxidermist's license 81 

Taylor pond. And. Co., tribs. closed 12 

Tea brook, Frank. Co., spl. law on 17 



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Telos lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing- 9 

Ten Thousand Acre pond, Som. Co., open to ice 

fishing 10 

Thomas pond, Cumb. Co., closed ,to ice fishing.. 7 
Thompson pond (And., Cumb. and Ox. Cos.) spl. 

law on '. 4 

Tilton pond, Ken. Co.. closed to ice fishing 7 

Tim brook, F'rank. Co., spl. law on 17 

Tiim brook, Frank. Co., tribs. closed. 14 

Togue. protection of, daily Jimit, transportation 

of, sale and purchase of 4-5-6-12-33-35-36 

Towns may elect I. F. & G. wardens when 89 

Townsend brook, And. Co 12 

Transportation of fish, game and birdis, when ac- 
companied by owner also under special tag 

without owner accompanying same 35-36-53-61-62 

Traps cannot be used for taking game or birds.. 52-62 

Trap, use of in fishing prohibited 33 

Trapping laws 77-78-79 

Traps must be marked, may be seized when not 

marked 78 

Traps must not be set within 25 feet of a muskrat 

house 79 

Trappers must visit traps 79 

Trawl, unlawful possession of when 34 

Trawl, use of in fishing prohibited 33 

Trespass law 91 

Tributaries defined 32 

Trout, length of which may be taken 12 

Trout, number of which may be taken 'in one 

day 5 

Trout, protection of under general law and trans- 
portation of 4-5-6-35-36 

Trout, sale and purchase of prohibited 33 

Tufts pond, Frank. Co., spl. law on tribs. to and 

portion of outlet closed 14-17 

Turtle lake, Hancock Co., closed to ice fis'hing 

and tribs. closed 7-18 

Twitchell pond. Ox. Co., tribs. to closed 19 

Two Spec pond, Waterford, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing 8 

IT 

Unnna.turalized fore'ign-born residents, certain, 

must have hunting license 73 

Upper Cold Stream tract, Som. Co., spl. law on 

waters in 29 

Upper Dam, spl. law on river and on pools below 

dam at 20 

Upper Enchanted T., Som. Co., spl. law on waters 

in 29 

Upper Patten Pond brook, Hancock Co., closed.. 18 

Upper Stone pond, Ox. Co.. open to ice fishing.. 8 

Upper Wilson pond, Pise. Co., tribs. closed 26 

V 

Varnum pond, Franklin county, itribs. closed 14 

Vaughan stream, Pise. Co., closed 25 

Violators, arrest of 86 

Violette brook, Van Buren, Aroos. Co., closed 

above Hammond's Mill 13 



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Waldo county, deer law in 49 

Waldo county, ice fishing laws in 11 

Waldo county, special fish laws in 30 

Wallace brook, Pen. Co., closed 24 

Wardens, I. F. & G. appointment and duties of.. 83-84 

Wardens, fire, I. F. & G. Wardens are 92 

Wardens, deputy, appointment and duties of S4 

Ward's brook and Ward's pond, Ox Co., spl. law 

on ' 22 

Ware pond, Penob. Co., closed to ice fishing - .... 9 

Warrants, service of, on corporations 87 

Warrants, wardens may arrest without 85 

Washington county, deer law in 49 

Washington county ice fishing laws in 11 

Washington county, spl. fis'h laws in • 30 

Webb pond. Frank. Co., trios, to, except portion 

of Alder brook closed 14 

Webber pond, in Sweden, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing 9 

Webster lake, Pise. Co.. open to ice fishing 9 

Weeks pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 10 

Weiir. use of in fishing prohibited^ 33 

West outlet of Moosebead lake closed 27 

Whetstone brook, tr. to Kennebago stream, 

Frank. Co. , closed 14 

White fish, general law on 34 

White perch (see perch) 

Whitney pond, in Oxford, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing 8 

Wild animals (except beaver) and wild birds 

found destroying property may be killed 57 

Wild birds, other than game birds, protection of, 

and nests and eggs protected 53 

Wild hares (or rabbits) 55 

Wilson brook, Ken. Co.. portion of closed 18-19 

Wilson lake, Frank. Co., trib. to 14 

Wilson lake, Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing 7 

Wilson snipe, protection of 60-61-G2 

Wilson stream. Pise. Co., portion of closed 25 

Woodcock, daily limit 61 

Woodcock, open season on under State law as 

am. by Federal law 9S 

See also p. 60. 
Woodcock, transportation of by residents and 

non-residents under license tag 62 

Woodcock, transportation of out of state by resi- 
dent citizens 69 

Woodduck protected 61 

Wyman pond, Som. Co., open to ace fishing 10 

T 

Yellow legs— protection of 60 

Yellow perch, must procure license before taking 

with traps or nets 35 

York county,' deer law in 49 

York county, waters closed to ice fishing in 11 

York county, special fish laws in 31 

York pond, York county, closed to all fishing.... 31 



